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QuoteWorld :: Men :: Henry Brooks Adams
Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams in Men category:
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"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." 3.9524 average rating  
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own." 3.4706 average rating  
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." 4.7273 average rating  
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible." 4.4697 average rating  
"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn." 3.8333 average rating  
 




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