Henry Brooks Adams

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    Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

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