That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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