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Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

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Abigail Adams

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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

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What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason. . . affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

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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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Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

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