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  • American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

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

  • Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

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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.1505, Open Road Media

  • Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

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    Henry Adams (2005). “Democracy an American Novel”, p.35, 1st World Publishing
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Henry Adams

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