Quotes with handmaid

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• Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

  George William Curtis
  American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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• Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conscientious
• observance
• character
• control
• cruelly
• willing

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