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• I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

  Karen Black

  Cancer, Thinking, Careers

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• I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

  Natalie Wood

  Stars, Home, Swimming

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• Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Money, Player, Cards

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

  Antonia Fraser

  Fun, Class, Matter

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• Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  People, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”

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• After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

  Shirley Jones

  Children, School, Salary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wedding, Men, Numbers

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

  Bill Condon

  Knowing, People, Mexican

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• Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

  Charles Lamb

  Women, Wife, Lovable

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• Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Friendship, Two, Acquaintance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1912). “The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.1199, Library of Alexandria

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• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

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• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Ballet, Shade

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.

  Martial

  Lying, Mean, Two

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.55

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• I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

  Lana Turner

  Girl, Men, Saint

  "Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles". Book by Jon Lewis, April 19, 2017.

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

  Kiera Cass

  Love You, Lovely, Together

  FaceBook post by Kiera Cass from Oct 07, 2012

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• Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years old." "Mommy said it," Michael answered. Bernie coughed, nearly choking on her food as Peter and Xavier laughed into their napkins.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Mean, Years, Four

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.285, Macmillan

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• She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. "I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, White, Lovely

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• Once upon a time' These are the most magical words our world has ever known and the gateway to the greatest stories ever told. They're an immediate calling to anyone who hears them-a calling into a world where everyone is welcome and anything can happen. Mice can become men, maids can become princesses, and they can teach valuable lessons in the process.

  Chris Colfer

  Princess, Men, Our World

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• In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Player, Men

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• In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.

  George R. R. Martin

  Beautiful, Song, Knights

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.967, Bantam

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• He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Morning, Heart, Gun

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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• He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

  Judy Grahn

  Mother, Husband, Princess

  Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”

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• In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Teacher, Husband, Party

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