#mistress

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

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England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife. ↗

— Cedric Hardwicke

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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ↗

— Horace

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ↗

— Jose Marti

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

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Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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