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I live a very dull life here and know nothing that passes in the town — I never go to any public place; indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.

— Martha Washington

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I am only fond of what comes from the heart.

Letter to Mercy Warren (1789)

I little thought, when the war was finished, that any circumstances could possibly have happened, which would call the General into public life again.

Letter to Mercy Warren (1789)

It is owing to this kindness of our numerous friends, in all quarters, that my new and unwished-for situation is not indeed a burden to me.

Letter to Mercy Warren (1789)

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Though the General's feelings and my own were perfectly in unison, with respect to our predilection for private life, yet I cannot blame him, for having acted according to his ideas of duty, in obeying the voice of his country.

Letter to Mercy Warren (1789)

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