"The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached."
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"When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly."
"A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master."
"A master of straw eates a servant of steele."
"Everyone is a master and servant."
"A good prayer is master of anothers purse."
"A good pay-master starts not at assurances."
"A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]"
"The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground."
"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master."
"Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject."
"Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master."
"Nature alone is the master of true genius."
"There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen."
"Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master."
"Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!"
"Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master."
"Master-morality and Slave-morality."
"Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke."
"I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master."