#master

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ↗

— Beverly Jones

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The master's irresponsible power has no such bound. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

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