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Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone — a balance of mind and temper that neither challenged nor avoided notice, nor admitted question of superiority or inferiority, of jealousy, of personal motives, from any source, even under great pressure.


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He was the grandson and great-grandson of John Quincy Adams and John Adams respectively. Henry Brooks Adams (February 16 1838 – March 27 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist historian academic and novelist.

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