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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound		Thursday Feb 05, 2026
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About Henry B. Adams

	Henry B. Adams
	(1838-1918) American historian.

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Friends are born, not made. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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