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Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. — George Etherege
You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress. — Jerry Springer
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress — Harriet Ann Jacobs
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother,… — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public. — John B. S. Haldane
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study… — Vincent Van Gogh
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. — Oscar Wilde
The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is… — Eliza Farnham
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more… — Vincent Bugliosi
My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others. — Vincent Bugliosi
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven. — Unknown Author
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like… — Unknown Author
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. — Martin Luther
Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just… — Marjorie M. Liu
He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got… — Pierre Salinger
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. — William Lilly
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun — William Shakespeare
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your… — William Davenant
No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to… — Alexander Pope

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