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

— Samuel Richardson

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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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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. ↗

— William Lilly

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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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