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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Abigail Adams

Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Accomplishment Arise Benefit Great Women
My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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Accountable Action Maker Remember Son Word
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Convinced Dangerous Grasping Man More
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Arbitrary Broken Promise Heart Liable Power
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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Account Affection Anxiety Care Children Family Need Parent Require Toil Wife
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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Country Dare Equally Guarded Inattentive Person Protected Say
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Call Frippery Little Necessary World
These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Desire Genius Hope Live Time Want
May 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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Children Country Goodness Grant Impress May Mind Ornament Step Universal
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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Country Inhabitant Person Property Tranquil
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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Convicted Creature Dangerous Few Man Power Vested Wisdom
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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Conflict Felt Intelligence Number Person View
The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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Government Long People Restraint Stacked Submit
O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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Devil Eye Heart Read Time Wicked
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
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Calm Character Endurance Genius Life Wish
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.
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Believe Bustle Desirable Life Man Situation

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