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  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

    — Cary Grant
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

    — E. B. White
  • I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

    — e. e. cummings
  • What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

    — Saint Augustine
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

    — Mark Twain
  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

    — Henry David Thoreau
  • If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

    — John Cardinal
  • In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

    — Anonymous
  • Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

    — John Adams
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

    — Abraham Lincoln
  • History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

    — ?Santayana?
  • What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

    — Last of the Summer Wine
  • Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

    — Terry Pratchett
  • I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

    — Terry Pratchett
  • .. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

    — Petronius (210 BC)
  • The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

    — Proust
  • So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

    — Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
  • You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

    — William J. H. Boetcker
  • Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

    — Lorna
  • No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

    — George Bernard Shaw
  • A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

    — Anon
  • Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

    — Anon
  • The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

    — Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
  • All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

    — Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"
The following family have Eckford connections, and as such may well be related to Archibald & Alison (CROSSER) FAIRBAIRN.
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  • James0 Fairbairn (cir. 1795 - Jun 1846)
    • Mary B. Thomson (cir. 1791 - Mar 1867)
      • Robert1 Fairbairn (Jul 1824 - Sep 1907)
        • Isabella Henderson (cir. 1827 - Aug 1873)
          • Margaret2 Fairbairn (cir. 1852 - aft. 1861)
          • James2 Fairbairn (May 1853 - aft. 1901)
            • Elizabeth Wright (cir. 1852 - aft. 1901)
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (Apr 1877 - aft. 1915)
                • Margaret E. Cornwall (bet. Jun 1878 - Sep 1878 - )
              • Mary A.3 Fairbairn (Jan 1880 - aft. 1891)
              • Archibald H.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1882 - aft. 1916)
                • Isabella O. Scott (cir. 1882 - aft. 1916)
              • Walter W.3 Fairbairn (Nov 1882 - bet. Jun 1970 - Sep 1970)
                • Bernice Bunyan
              • Isabella3 Fairbairn (cir. 1884 - aft. 1901)
              • Margaret3 Fairbairn (cir. 1886 - aft. 1891)
              • Mabel3 Fairbairn (cir. 1888 - aft. 1901)
              • James3 Fairbairn (cir. Feb 1891 - aft. 1914)
          • Archibald H.2 Fairbairn (Aug 1855 - aft. 1911)
            • Fanny W. Fairbairn (cir. 1862 - aft. 1901)
              • Helen D.3 Fairbairn (Dec 1879 - aft. 1913)
                • Harry C. Welsh
              • Robert3 Fairbairn (cir. 1882 - aft. 1911)
              • William3 Fairbairn (cir. 1883 - aft. 1911)
              • Elizabeth3 Fairbairn (cir. 1886 - aft. 1911)
              • James3 Fairbairn (Jan 1887 - aft. 1943)
                • Ann Wilkinson (say 1888 - aft. 1943)
              • Edward3 Fairbairn (bet. Mar 1889 - Jun 1889 - aft. 1936)
              • John D.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1892 - aft. 1922)
                • Matilda Smith
              • Archibald H.3 Fairbairn (Sep 1893 - aft. 1917)
                • Female UnknownSurname (say 1893 - )
          • Mabel2 Fairbairn (Aug 1859 - aft. 1901)
          • Robert H.2 Fairbairn (Dec 1862 - Aug 1920)
            • Grace C. G. Spalding (cir. 1864 - Apr 1908)
              • Robert H.3 Fairbairn (Jul 1893 - May 1958)
                • Vibeke M. Madsen (say 1895 - cir. 1975)
              • John S.3 Fairbairn (Feb 1895 - Dec 1956)
                • Helen M. P. Low (May 1893 - cir. 1966)
              • Isabella H.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1899 - aft. 1930)
                • Samuel W. Smith (cir. 1890 - )
              • Margaret S.3 Fairbairn (cir. 1900 - aft. 1923)
                • Ivy F. Thomson (say 1900 - aft. 1923)
              • James3 Fairbairn (Jun 1901 - Sep 1973)
                • Emele M. Te'o (May 1908 - Nov 1996)
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