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From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Date: 20030101
Author:ELIZABETH KNOWLES

Adams, Henry Brooks 1838–1918
1. A friend in power is a friend lost. The Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 7

2. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. The Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 22

3. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. The Education of Henry Adams (1907) ch. 25

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