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Quote by Abigail Adams
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that corr

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

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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

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Marriage
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The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, “Bless you.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. – Bill Copeland

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