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Henry B. Adams Quotes

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.
Henry B. Adams

Biography

Author Profession: Historian
Nationality: American
Born: February 16, 1838
Died: March 27, 1918

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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
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Aim, Certain, Community, Friend, Friendship, Hardly, Life, Lifetime, Many, Much, Needs, Parallelism, Possible, Rivalry, Thought, Three, Two

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Aim, Certain, Community, Friend, Friendship, Hardly, Life, Lifetime, Many, Much, Needs, Parallelism, Possible, Rivalry, Thought, Three, Two