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But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

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.

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.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.