The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

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Henry B. Adams

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996 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.
984 We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
1046 There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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