#mistress

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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? ↗

— Prince Charles

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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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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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? ↗