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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. - Henry

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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Politics
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Henry Adams
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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Words
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Art
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Other Quotes from
Men & Women
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. – Nancy Astor

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Men & Women

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. – Susan B. Anthony

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Men & Women

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

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Men & Women

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. – Aristotle

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Men & Women

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Habits are safer than rules; you dont have to watch them. And you dont have to keep them either. They keep you. – Frank Crane

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