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Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

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Abigail Adams
Age: 73 †
Born: 1744
Born: November 22
Died: 1818
Died: October 28
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Abigail Smith
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