• We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

  Djuna Barnes
  American writer and artist 1892-1982
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. beginning
2. dressing
3. servant
4. without
5. before
6. parlor

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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. by : Djuna Barnes

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