The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and...

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and...

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how...

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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