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    She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    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 take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Lord of himself, though not of lands,
    And having nothing, yet hath all.
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    They own Spode, Lowestoft, candelabra,
    Mantels, and hostess gowns, and sunburst clocks,
    Turtle soup, Chippendale, red stain “hangings,”
    Aubussons and Hattie Carnegie.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week’s seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)