“The only people I really hate are servants. They are not really human beings at all.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Context: The only people I really hate are servants. They are not really human beings at all. As attributed without citation in At Home by Bill Bryson, Chapter V, "The Scullery and the Larder" p. 111

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American poet 1892–1950

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