When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.
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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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But I dare say you have not been so inattentive an observer, as to suppose that Sweet peace, and contentment, cannot inhabit the lowly roof
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Humble indeed, when compared to the Palaces you have visited, and the pomp you have been witness to.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!
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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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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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