A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMSMy bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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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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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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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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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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You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage
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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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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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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 desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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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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