Mr. Marsh's Common Place book

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This golden brooch will always hold a special place in my heart. I will never forget the look on my now-deceased wife's face when I handed it to her that one night in Australia. Prior to my leaving for Australia, I was rather poor and rather ashamed of that fact, but she was always right by my side. I had been hearing about a gold rush in Australia from a multitude of people around me, but could never quite push myself to leave. That was until my girlfriend, at the time, told me that I should go out on a limb and buy a ticket to Australia. I had been trying in…

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This is one of my favorite pages from one of my pocket etiquette books. I always make sure to carry it around with me throughout my day-to-day life. The words that have always stood out to me are, “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds” (Hartly 10). I hold these words very close to my heart and I think about them with every decision that I make. Rather than sitting around waiting for something to happen, sometimes you have to make it happen. It was these exact words that helped me make my decision to move to Australia. I had been trying my…

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This is Fanny and I on our wedding day. This was the first time that I had ever gotten my photograph taken, so I was more than delighted when Francis' sister came with her photography equipment. While I enjoyed this small part of the wedding, it seemed that Fanny got a little carried with everything. All the flowers had to be perfect, her hair had to be just so, there seemed to be something wrong at every turn, but I just had to go along with whatever was asked of me. Fanny was the first one of the sisters to get married, so it seemed that everyone was very…