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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSBut I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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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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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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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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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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.
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