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Martha Washington: . . ....

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. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

Source: Letter to a friend; quoted in Martha Washington, by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, 1897.
-- Martha Washington, (Jun 21 1732-1802), US first lady; She was America's first First Lady; also the first U.S. woman to have her likeness appear on a U.S. stamp.


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