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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

– Henry Adams

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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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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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

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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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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

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You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

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