Henry Adams quote about politics from The Education of Henry Adams - Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.
 Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1906). copy citation

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“Hay's chance lay in patience and good-temper till the luck should turn, and to him the only object was time; but as political education the point seemed vital to Adams, who never liked shutting his eyes or denying an evident fact. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things. In this case, the contradiction seemed crude.
With Hay's politics, at home or abroad, Adams had nothing whatever to do. Hay belonged to the New York school, like Abram Hewitt, Evarts, W. C. Whitney, Samuel J. Tilden—men who played the game for ambition or amusement, and played it, as a rule, much better than the professionals, but whose aims were considerably larger than those of the usual player, and who felt no great love for the cheap drudgery of the work.” source

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