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Maids

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“My face is my fortune, sir,” she said.

Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes

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I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.

T. S. Eliot

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Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?

Anonymous

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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen… I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.

John Millington Synge

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To dance attendance on their lordships’ pleasures.

William Shakespeare

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I [Ariel] will be correspondent to command,
And do my spiriting gently.

William Shakespeare

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’Ban, ’Ban, Ca—Caliban,
Has a new master—Get a new man.

William Shakespeare

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“Nobody asked you, sir,” she said.

Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes

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