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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