Quote by Henry Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes a

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams

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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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We cannot reform the world…. Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. – John F. Kennedy

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria Steinem

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We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. – Bill Maher

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