The effect of power and publicity on all men is th... -Henry Adams

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels....
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....
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts....
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I tak...
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds....
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers....
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit....
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops....
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies....
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage....

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Yeah, I mean, having been raised like a Catholic, I have a sort of sympathy for religion, in that I think that religion's religion. It can be bad or g...
There will be no sympathy for Trump from voters if he suffers greatly from COVID-19 and he wouldn't know how to be a sympathetic character anyway....
I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what t...
I had no sympathy with my mum and dad....
Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to talk about it. The people suffer...
The infuriating thing about not liking your weight when you're slim is that there's no sympathy and very rarely any help....
Many migrants awaiting asylum hearings in the U.S. never show up for their court dates. And the longer they stay in the U.S., the more sympathy they d...
From a very young age I'd learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I'd always make jokes if anybody tried to throw sympathy at me....
I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them....
I had a horrifying experience but what the world fails to understand is that the handicapped need no sympathy, they need to be encouraged in whatever ...