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About Abigail Adams
Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, and is retrospectively perceived as the second First Lady of the United States; the term was not coined until after she had died. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams.
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Additional quotes by Abigail Adams
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.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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.