If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.
More Abigail Adams Quotes
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Some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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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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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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I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.
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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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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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Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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