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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

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.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
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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Deepest Education First Perhaps Principle Root World
Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Attend Circumstance Situation Some Disagreeable
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Abhor Age Custom Men Sex Vassal
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Blessing Children Country Family Heaven Ornament
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
But such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Friend Happy Harsh Master More Willing
Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Compared Humble Indeed Pomp Witness
No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Complaining Difficult Hate High Low Person Shoe
What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Cruelties Detail History Kingdom Powerful Ravage
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Daughter Empowerment Eve Female Mother Severely Smarted
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Good Man Obligation Possible Read
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Believe Bustle Desirable Life Man Situation
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Ambition Difficult Hope Ourselves Pride Private Sacrifice Task

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