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

Source: Letter to her son, John Q. Adams, 1780.
-- Abigail Adams, (Nov 11 1744-1818), US first lady; Her prolific letter writing vividly portrayed the life of the young republic; only woman to be wife of one president and the mother to another.

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