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Henry Adams: History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)

by Henry Adams

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Eric’s Quotes

“I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings”
― Timothy Findley, The Wars

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“...until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

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“which so incorruptibly reduced a reality to its color content that it resumed a new existence in a beyond of color, without any previous memories.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne

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“I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay peacefully by the Stour, well upstream of the rhythmic creaking and the exhortation, reading Lily Christine and Gibbon and gossiping with kindred lotus-eaters under the willow-branches.”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts

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“Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.”
― Charles Baudelaire

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