"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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Source: Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton
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