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.
ABIGAIL ADAMSThere is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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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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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
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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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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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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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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
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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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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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