"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall."

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— Theo Jansen

Art1948

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"Three hackney-coaches, and two women in patterns passed by; also a man with an umbrella dripping, which he held rather over a brown paper parcel than himself: at last, a bright spot appeared just abov…"

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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