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When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
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Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

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— Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 42

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I searched the FM band but there was nothing besides other pious pleaders, and they didn't come in too well. The AM band offered about the same thing, only with worse reception, nothing remotely describable as news, and no music because commercial entertainment as we knew it was no more, and its handmaiden, advertising had gone with it.

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— Chapter 4, p. 21

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The creative scientist lives in a 'wildness of logic,' where reason is the handmaiden and not the master.

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— Attributed in Chaplin, Virginia. "Princeton & Mathematics: A Notable Record". Princeton Alumni Weekly (May 9, 1958).

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Life is not a thing of knowing only nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

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— "Class-Day Oration" (1893).

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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.

Francis Bacon

— Francis Bacon, De dignitate et augmentis scientiarium, Part I. vi. 3. 6.

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The creative scientist lives in a 'wildness of logic ,' where reason is the handmaiden and not the master.


— Marston Morse in: Virginia Chaplin (1858) "Princeton & Mathematics: A Notable Record"" in: Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 9, 1958

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