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A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
Eternity
Influence
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry B. Adams
Power
Friend
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry B. Adams
Man
Years
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams
Life
Habit
Chaos
Order
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams
Genius
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
Education
Facts
Ignorance
Nothing
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
Friendship
Life
Thought
Community
Needs
Rivalry
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry B. Adams
Intelligence
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. Adams
Man
Woman
Wrong
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry B. Adams
Mankind
Study
Woman
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. Adams
Progress
Evolution
President
Washington
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry B. Adams
Trust
Purpose
Lies
Nothing
Press
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.
Henry B. Adams
Men
Power
Effect
Killing
Publicity
Self
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.
Henry B. Adams
American
President
Sea
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry B. Adams
Man
Simplicity