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I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty. -- Amelia Earhart
I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. -- T. S. Eliot
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel. -- Bertrand Russell
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me. -- Nellie Melba
All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light ... -- Margot Asquith
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is. -- John Ruskin
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life. -- Charles Dickens
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. -- Henry James
Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end. -- Reginald Arkell
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them. -- Florence Nightingale
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich. -- Frank Chodorov

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