Henry Brooks Adams

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“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture—and very much to our credit.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)