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Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, whenever he travels.

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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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Born: June 24, 1848
Died: February 13, 1927 (aged 78)
Bio: Peter Chardon Brooks Adams was an American historian and a critic of capitalism.
Known for:
  1. The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895)
  2. The Theory of Social Revolutions (1913)
  3. The New Empire (1902)
  4. America's Economic Supremacy (1900)
  5. The Emancipation of Massachusetts (1886)

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