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Henry B. Adams

"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

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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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"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."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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