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Quotations By Henry Adams


Education
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Love
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 orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.