Adams

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    Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    The more I live here in western Europe, the more I am impressed by the sense of decay;Mnot the graceful and dignified decay of an oriental, but the vulgar and sordid decay of a bankrupt cotton-mill.
    —Henry Brooks. Adams (1838–1918)

    There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)