Domestic Servants

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    An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.
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    What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?
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