Brooks Adams
Brooks Adams
Peter Chardon Brooks Adamswas an American historian and a critic of capitalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth24 June 1848
CountryUnited States of America
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Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled
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Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation
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You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.