{"quotes":[{"text":"He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York.","author":"Sherwood Anderson","tags":["imagination","kingdom","servants"],"id":2411,"author_id":"Sherwood+Anderson"},{"text":"I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right,' George said, rather thickly. 'I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.","author":"Sarah Brazytis","tags":["brothers","brothership","footmen","history","homeschool ","servants","twins","victorian-england"],"id":44833,"author_id":"Sarah+Brazytis"},{"text":"John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and self-respect forever with...A smile.","author":"Sarah Brazytis","tags":["footmen","historical fiction","history","sarah brazytis","servants","smile","the-apprentices","twins","victorian-england"],"id":66742,"author_id":"Sarah+Brazytis"},{"text":"Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-an-example","demonstrate","demonstration","example","follow","food-for-thought","great-leaders","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","myle-munroe","myles-munroe","servants","serve","service-to-mankind"],"id":92441,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more horses than cars, before the male servants disappeared and they made do, at Upleigh and at Beechwood, with just a cook and a maid, the Sheringhams had owned not just four horses in their own stable, but what might be called a 'real horse', a racehorse, a thoroughbred. Its name was Fandango. It was stabled near Newbury. It had never won a damn thing. But is was the family's indulgence, their hope for fame and glory on the racecourses of southern England. The deal was that Pa and Ma - otherwise known in his strange language as 'the shower' - owned the head and body and he and Dick and Freddy had a leg each.'What about the fourth leg?''Oh the fourth leg. That was always the question.","author":"Graham Swift","tags":["boys","family","horses","servants"],"id":110626,"author_id":"Graham+Swift"},{"text":"Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.","author":"Muhammad Ali Jinnah","tags":["ali","corruption","culture","education","harmony","humor","inspirational","islam","jinnah","leader","leadership","lessons","love","muhammad","no","organize","peace","people","power","quote","servants","society","system"],"id":116134,"author_id":"Muhammad+Ali+Jinnah"},{"text":"George dutifully dusted the marks from the expensive rug and retired to the kitchen to await a grave and disapproving Collins, wishing with all of his boyish heart that he had applied for the stables. Cleaning stalls had to be beneficial exercise, and surely one must become accustomed to the smells...Eventually.","author":"Sarah Brazytis","tags":["boys","brothers","footmen","historical-fiction","history","home-education","homeschool","homeschool-","homeschooling","servants","twins","victorian-england"],"id":127565,"author_id":"Sarah+Brazytis"},{"text":"She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["employees","grace","gracias","servants","survival","thanks"],"id":131655,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["revolution","revolutionary","servants"],"id":139053,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free. ","author":"Janette Oke","tags":["freedom","janette-oke","servants"],"id":165903,"author_id":"Janette+Oke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}