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• Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Eye, Her Beauty

  Sir Philip Sidney (1868). “The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia”, p.4

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• Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Husband, Men

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.62

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• All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

  Samuel Richardson

  Women, Taken, Twenties

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• I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Opportunity, Nurse, Different

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• (About a cookbook...) - What about this one? Maids of Honor? - Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.

  Terry Pratchett

  Honor, Ends, Cookbook

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• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Hair, Cities

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1172, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This is the month, and this the happy morn,
  wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King,
  of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born,
  our great redemption from above did bring.

  John Milton

  Christmas, Mother, Kings

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' (1645) st. 1

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• ...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait until you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until he died, I am told, my grandfather was a gentle man.

  Haven Kimmel

  Home, Men, Hands

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• For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

  Homer

  Dog, Home, Men

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Jobs, Growing Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The heart of a man to the heart of a maid-
  Light of my tents, be fleet-
  Morning awaits at the end of the world,
  And the world is all at our feet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Morning, Heart

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky
  The deer to the wholesome wold;
  And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid,
  As it was in the days of old.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Heart, Men

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Selected Verse”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Single, Matrimony

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• Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

  Florence King

  Single, Powerful, Crazy

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• I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).

  Ally Carter

  Sexy, Art, Tunnels

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Marriage, Girl, Wedding

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

  Colleen McCullough

  Mean, Class, People

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.22, Head of Zeus

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• Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Art, Queens

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

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• I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?

  Kim Harrison

  Als, Said

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• Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Sight, Mad

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

  Anne Boleyn

  Kings, Queens, Simple

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• Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Two, Ice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 2, l. [117]

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• Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hurt, Morning, Uncles

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• The wardrobe? It was so full of gowns that he didn't think he could cram himself inside. Besides, it would be awkward if the maid came in to lay out a gown for dinner and grabbed Oliver instead of the blue silk with lace sleeves.

  Jessica Day George

  Thinking, Blue, Awkward

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• Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Dream, Dog, Secret

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.121, Penguin

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