"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for”¦" — Henry Adams

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

— Henry Adams

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About Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's minister (ambassador) to the United Kingdom. The posting influenced the younger man through the experience of wartime diplomacy and absorption in English culture, especially the works of John Stuart Mill. After the American Civil War, he became a political journalist who entertained America's foremost intellectuals at his homes in Washington and Boston.

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