Close relation in a place like London is a personal mystery… - Henry Brooks Adams

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Close relation in a place like London is a personal mystery as profound as chemical affinity. Thousands pass, and one separates himself from the mass to attach himself to another, and so make, little by little, a group.

Henry Brooks 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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Alternative Names: Frances Snow Compton • Henry Adams • Henry B. Adams

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