That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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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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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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My Dear Son… remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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The parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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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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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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