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Brooks Adams
American
Historian
About the author
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.
Brooks Adams,
American
Historian
#Life
#Thought
#Needs
#Community
#Friendship
#Rivalry
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Brooks Adams,
American
Historian
#Practice
#Politics
#Profession
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Brooks Adams,
American
Historian
#Influence
#Difference