Fair Maid of Brittany

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    A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby.... The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    No more but e’en a woman, and commanded
    By such poor passion as the maid that milks
    And does the meanest chares.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)