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Mistress Quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
- When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
- 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
- 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,…
- 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…
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- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. — Francis Bacon
- A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant
- Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce
- Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but… — Lord Byron
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. — Anton Chekhov
- If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Lord Chesterfield
- For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She… — Ernestine Rose
- As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare