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

Abigail Adams

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
When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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Bleed John Adam Page Wounded
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
Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Attend Circumstance Situation Some Disagreeable
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
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
The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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Affection Conviction Heart Love Reason Receiving Taken
If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
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Allow Deepest Depend Early Education Root Youth
A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.
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Estimation Fear God Man Moral Paradox Patriot Real Religion
If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Hero Learn Mean Perhaps Philosopher Statemen Vanity 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
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.
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Daughter Empowerment Eve Female Mother Severely Smarted
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Cold Deliver Friend Husband Lover Politician Preacher
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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Accomplish Back Feet Forever Late Put
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

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