American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

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Henry B. Adams

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1044 I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
197 We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
231 We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
1019 We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
1084 There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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