#mistress

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

— Horace

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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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Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland ↗

— Judith McNaught

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Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. ↗

— George Etherege

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You went up a girl and came down a woman. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#mistress-coyle #monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #viola #men

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. ↗

— William Wycherley

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. ↗

— William Wycherley

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

— Victor Hugo

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