The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty an… - Henry Adams

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The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams

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Henry Brooks Adams (16 February 1838 – 27 March 1918) was a U.S. historian, journalist, novelist and educator. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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Pen Names: Frances Snow Compton

Native Name: Henry Brooks Adams

Alternative Names: Henry B. Adams

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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

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Science hesitates, more visibly than the Church ever did, to decide once for all whether unity or diversity is ultimate law; whether order or chaos is the governing rule of the universe, if universe there is; whether anything, except phenomena, exists.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. - Henry Adams

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