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

Abigail Adams

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
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Country Describe Family Feeling Parent Past Since Sweet
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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Awareness Chance Class Educated Family Female Improvement Intellectual Sex
The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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Barbarism Ignorance Level Place Slavery Tenant Wood
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Ardor Diligence Education Inspirational Learning Perseverance
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
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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Fall King People Remain. Longer Slip
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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Acquire Character Future Importance May Step
It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure
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Affecting Bear Circumstance Dispose Hear Most Week
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Husband Tyrant Unlimited Wedding Women
Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Great Inspirational Necessity Retirement Virtue Women
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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Dark Disagreeable Humour Men Soul Vastly
These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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Desire Genius Hope Live Time Want
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Born Challenge Contending Habit Mind Vigorous
How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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Capable Few Soul Nobel Undertaking
Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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.
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Blessing Children Country Family Heaven Ornament

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