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“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”

Henry Adams · Experience

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Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics

Henry Adams

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Faith

Henry Adams

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendship

Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

History