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Abigail Adams Quotes: Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
         

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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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.



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Great necessities call out great virtues.



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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.



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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.





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