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| Abigail Adams Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. | Words |
| 2 | Take, then, your paltry Christ, your gentleman God. We want the carpenter's son, with his saw and hod. | God |
| 3 | What this country needs is a good five-cent Nickel. | Economy |
| 4 | There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. | Character |
| 5 | No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. | Congress |
| 6 | Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. | Education |
| 7 | All experience is an arch, to build upon. | Experience |
| 8 | Friends are born, not made. | Friendship |
| 9 | One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. | Friendship |
| 10 | A friend in power is a friend lost. | Friendship |
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