One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
More Quotes from Henry Brooks Adams:
In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.Henry Brooks Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Henry Brooks Adams
It love is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
Henry Brooks Adams
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