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. (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.

Abigail Adams

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