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“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

Abigail Adams · Marriage

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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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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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

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