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| so:description | Chapter XVIII Free Fight (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VI Rome (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XV Darwinism (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XVII President Grant (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VII Treason (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams |
| so:description | Chapter XIX Chaos (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (en) |
| so:description | Chapter V Berlin (en) |
| so:description | Chapter I Quincy (en) |
| so:description | Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
| so:description | Chapter II Boston (en) |
| so:description | ;Preface (en) |
| so:description | Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
| so:description | The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XVI The Press (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
| so:text | ...in the Executive, Grant and Boutwell were varieties of the type — political specimens — pathetic in their helplessness to do anything with power when it came to them. They knew not how to amuse themselves; they could not conceive how other people were amused. Work, whiskey, and cards were life. The atmosphere of political Washington was theirs — or was supposed by the outside world to be in their control — and this was the reason why the outside world judged that Washington was fatal even for a young man of thirty-two, who had passed through the whole variety of temptations, in every capital of Europe, for a dozen years; who never played cards, and who loathed whiskey. (en) |
| so:description | Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
| so:description | Chapter III Washington (en) |
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