#mistress

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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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Jose Marti

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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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