"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
"In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side."
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Source: Henry Adams (1963). “The Education of Henry Adams: And Other Selected Writings”, New York, Twayne Pub
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