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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

~Henry Adams

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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: February 16th, 1838

Died: March 27th, 1918

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