"Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich."
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"Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!"
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"Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible."
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"Faint heart never won fair maid."
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"Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria."
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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."
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"Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!"
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"I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them."
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"One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep."
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"I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?"
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"I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill."
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"I'm a real Kentish maid, you know."
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"Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid!"
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