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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. 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. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken
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Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
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Abigail Adams |
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
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Abigail Adams |
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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Abigail Adams |
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
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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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To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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