Great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSGreat benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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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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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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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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
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Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.
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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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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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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
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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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