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  • The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

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    Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1577, Open Road Media

  • The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

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    Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1631, Open Road Media

  • For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

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    Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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

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    'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25
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Henry Adams

  • Born: February 16, 1838
  • Died: March 27, 1918
  • Occupation: Historian
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