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Henry Adams
American historian and author, 1838–1918. 1 explained quote.
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
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About Henry Adams
Henry Adams was the grandson and great-grandson of U.S. presidents. He taught history at Harvard in the 1870s and wrote a celebrated history of the Jefferson and Madison administrations. His autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, written in the third person, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919.