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Martha Finley - Elsie's motherhood (1876)

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'Oh, are you going to teach me how to shoot?'... 'Yes,' his father answered, smiling at the eager face. 'You will not be anxious, little wife?' turning to her with a tender loving look. 'No, my husband; surely I can trust him with you, his own wise, careful, loving father,' she answered with a confiding smile.

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It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Martha Finley

Martha Finley
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Born: April 26, 1828
Died: January 30, 1909 (aged 80)
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