Charles Francis Adams, Sr. quotes
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“Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.”
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“It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.”
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“All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.”
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“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”
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“In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”
-- Charles Francis Adams, Sr.Source : Diary entry, April 15, 1836.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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