Quote of the day
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe,
Needs friendship's solid masonwork below.
Henry Adams
Born: February 16, 1838
Died: March 27, 1918 (aged 80)
Bio: Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents.
Known for:
- The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
- Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
- Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1905)
- The life of Albert Gallatin (1879)
- The Degradation Of The Democratic Dogma
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