Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMSSome disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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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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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.
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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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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in occasional intercourse with the learned.
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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