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Henry Adams
 American author, autobiographer, & historian


| “ | A friend in power is a friend lost. | ” |
| “ | Friends are born, not made. | ” |
| “ | No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself. | ” |
| “ | No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. | ” |
| “ | Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts. | ” |
| “ | There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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