Henry Adams Quotes

Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of Model, To Become A Manikin On Which The Toilet Of Education Is To Be Draped In Order To Show The Fit Or Misfit Of The Clothes. The Object Of Study Is The Garment, Not The Figure. The Tailor Adapts The Manikin As Well As The Clothes To His Patron's Wants. The Tailor's Object, In This Volume, Is To Fit Young Men, In Universities Or Elsewhere, To Be Men Of The World, Equipped For Any Emergency ; And The Garment Offered To Them Is Meant To Show The Faults Of The Patchwork Fitted On Their Fathers.

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

Henry Adams Quotes: Since His Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of

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