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On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

— Deborah Sampson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

— Jan Hus

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

— Woodrow Wilson

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

— George Washington

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

— Jill Scott

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.

— Charles Inglis

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

— Ricky Skaggs

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

— Nikolai Gogol

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

— Robert Owen

✗Opposing Perspectives

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe