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Mary Collier
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“So the industrious bees do hourly strive To bring their loads of honey to the hive; Their sordid owners always reap the gains, And poorly recompense their toils and pains.”
Mary Collier (1688–1762) first seen 1739 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Woman’s Labour (1739), p. 17
“Though we all day with care our work attend, Such is our fate, we know when ’twill end. When evening’s come, you homeward take your way. We, till our work is done, are forced to stay”
Mary Collier (1688–1762) first seen 1739 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Woman’s Labour (1739)
“The greatest Heroes that the World can know, To Women their Original must owe.”
Mary Collier (1688–1762) first seen 1740 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras (1740), l. 132