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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

~Henry Adams

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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

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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 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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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16th, 1838

Died: March 27th, 1918

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