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No sand-blast of science had yet skimmed off the epidermis of history, thought, and feeling.

— Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams (1918)

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I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.

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It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

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We never despised the world or its opinions, we only failed to find out its existence.

Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

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