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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Adams

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. – 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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You philosophers are sages in your maxims, and fools in your conduct. – Madame Gout to Mr. Benjamin Franklin, “Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout,”

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Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. – John Burroughs

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