A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
ABIGAIL ADAMSI feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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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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May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
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The house shakes…with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.
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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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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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That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute
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Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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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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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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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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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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And bless the tranquil inhabitants, equally guarded and protected, in person and property, in this happy Country, as those who reside in the most elegant and costly dwellings.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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