Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
ABIGAIL ADAMSThe 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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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.
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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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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.
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Wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
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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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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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