What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Brooks Adams
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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A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
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You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
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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.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Friends are born, not made.
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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They know enough who know how to learn.
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Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself
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