The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor… — Henry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
1907
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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 10.
Original citation
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 10.
