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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs

Abigail Adams

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Call Frippery Little Necessary World
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Comprise Duty Few Good Man Whole Word
My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Accountable Action Maker Remember Son Word
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
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
I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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Believe Father Jesus Knowledge Little More Primitive Simplicity Unitarian
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
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
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
If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill’d take the deepest root
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Allow Deepest Depend Early Education Root Youth
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
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
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
What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Contrary Convince One Reasoning Sense Three
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
ABIGAIL ADAMS

Cold Deliver Friend Husband Lover Politician Preacher

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