Quote#Self
The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant,…
Quote byBooker T. Washington · 1856–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XVI: Europe.
English (original)
The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached. In our country the servant expects to become, in a few years, a "master" himself.
— Booker T. Washington
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