John Quincy Adams/later Congressional Career 1830%e2%80%931848

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    Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he’s dead.
    P. J. Wolfson, and John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)