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“An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Cold eyes ... steel grey, rather small, not unpleasant in good-humour, diabolic in a passion, but worst when a little suspicious; then they watch you as though you were a young rattle-snake, to be killed when convenient.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“As if the spring were all your own,
What are you when the rose is blown?”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)
“Life must be aromatic.
There must be scent, somehow there must be some.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)