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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

Abigail Adams

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
Great learning and superior abilities…will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
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Ability Estimate Great Honor Horror Integrity Learning Little Small Truth
I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Acknowledge Myself Religion Unitarian
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
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
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
Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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All Could Happen Man Remember Tyrant
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
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Comparison Domination Ignorance Man Observation Parent Power
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
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
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
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Arise Disappointment False Forming Notion Unhappiness
Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Compared Humble Indeed Pomp Witness
These are the 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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Character Genius Heart Hero Life Pacific Repose Time
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 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

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