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.
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.Henry Brooks Adams
Had Grant been a Congressman one would have been on one's guard, for one knew the type. One never expected from a Congressman more than good intentions and public spirit. Newspaper-men as a rule had no great respect for the lower House Senators had less and Cabinet officers had none at all. Indeed, one day when Adams was pleading with a Cabinet officer for patience and tact in dealing with Representatives, the Secretary impatiently broke out 'You can't use tact with a Congressman A Congressman is a hog You must take a stick and hit him on the snout' The secretary who made the remark 'may well have been Adams's friend, Secretary of the Interior Jacob Dolson Cox,' according to note 18 on p. 617.
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense that which they will, is right that which they reject, is wrong and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
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