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“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: education, learning

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“We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: action, vocabulary, words

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“I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: complaint, equality, highs-lows, humanity, imperfection

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“I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could… that your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.”
― Abigail Adams

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