#mistress

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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

#away #england #get #good #mistress

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

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

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

#any #bestow #care #cost #good

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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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

#go #i #ideas #mistresses #others

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

— Sextus Propertius

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