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Mary Collier Quotes

1688–1762 England

Mary Collier (9 October 1688 – 20 October 1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for The Woman's Labour (1739)

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The greatest Heroes that the World can know,
To Women their Original must owe.

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.

The Woman’s Labour (1739)

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

The Woman’s Labour (1739)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mary Collier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.