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Abigail Adams Quote

It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

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It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

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