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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons."

"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Explore more quotes by Henry B. Adams

"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Friends are born, not made."

"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."

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