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You can never know. That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about. I will not do it.
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“Everything in arms. Did not find time to sit down till 2 pm.” The phrase is idiomatic, of course, yet it suggests an attitude. A house could be an adversary. Turn your back, and it rippled into disorder. Chairs tipped. Candles slumped. Egg yolks hardened in cold skillets. Dust settled like snow. Only by constant effort could a woman conquer her possessions. Mustering grease and ashes, shaking feather beds and pillows to attention, scrubbing floors and linens into subjection, she restored a fragile order to a fallen world.”
― A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
― A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
“How long God will preserve my strength to perform as I have done of late he only knows. May I trust in him at all times and do good and hee will fullfill his promis according to my Day. May he giv me strength and may I Conduct accordingly.”
― A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
― A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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