Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an i...
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Intelligence
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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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.
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Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.
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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.
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
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Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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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.
Marriage
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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
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He was as jealous of his power as an impotent lover of his mistress, without activity of mind enough to enjoy or exert it, but could not bear ...
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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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.
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Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, 'I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease'. Disraeli replied, 'That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.'
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I frankly admit that to be a 'mistress' is less dishonorable than to be a 'wife'; for while the mistress may leave her degradation if she will...
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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.
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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
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Mistress (n): something which fits between a mister and a mattress.
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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.
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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.
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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
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