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Henry B. Adams quotes about good

American Historian February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918

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the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a sure guide. Social perfection was also sure, because human nature worked for Good, and three instruments were all she asked? Suffrage, Common Schools, and Press. On these points doubt was forbidden. Education was divine, and man needed only a correct knowledge of facts to reach perfection: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on... Henry B. Adams
The habit of looking at life as a social relation? an affair of society? did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession? such as temper, patience, courtesy, or a faculty of profiting by the social defects of opponents? it would have been education better worth having than mathematics or languages; but so far as it helped to make anything, it helped only to make the college... Henry B. Adams
Henry B. Adams quote: "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith..."
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. Henry B. Adams
Henry B. Adams quote: "It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. Henry B. Adams
Henry B. Adams quote: "Good men do the most harm."
Good men do the most harm. Henry B. Adams

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