Adams Express

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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.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“[One cannot express lack of knowledge in affirmative language.] This idea is more firmly grasped in the form of interrogation: “What do I know?”Mthe words I bear as a motto, inscribed over a pair of scales.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)