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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

— Abigail Adams

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

Do not put such unlimited powers in the hands of the husband, Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

If you complain of neglect of Education in sons, what shall I say with regard to daughters, who every day experience the want of it?

You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.

I long to hear that you have declared an independency.

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