“He hated games. They made the world look too simple. . . Chess, in #particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united . . . the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.” #QuotsyAug20
It was hard to decide who was the most beautiful — maybe the perfect blond girl, or the bronze-haired boy.
They were all looking away — away from each other, away from the other students, away from anything in #particular as far as I could tell #QuotsyAug20
- Abigail Adams
In March of 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband John, to remember the women who were fighting for independence too. Of course, he did not do so when creating the Declaration of Independence or later with the US Constitution.
#QuotsyAug20 #particular
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