A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMSPosterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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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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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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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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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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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.
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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.
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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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What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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