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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams
Life, Change, Order
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 16 (1907)

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams
Love, Life, Friendship
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Henry Adams
Life, Trust, Education
Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.286, Harvard University Press

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