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He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Henry Adams
Talking, Tongue, Language
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.112, Booklassic

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Henry Adams
Art, Language, American Language
1907 The Education of Henry Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

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