Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
ABIGAIL ADAMSIts never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
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These are 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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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.
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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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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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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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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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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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The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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