Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMay your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
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