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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Doctrine, Crowds

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• ... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.424, 谷月社

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• Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no patience for the rest of your existence; your wife, your children, your friends. She is the most thrilling evening of your week, but some day she will leave you for good. One night, after she's been gone for years, you will see her on the arm of a younger man, and she will pretend not to recognize you.

  David Benioff

  Beautiful, Children, Night

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Jealous, Fighting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Guides

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.8, OUP Oxford

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• If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an American standard, an American original. ... I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. ... I don't need time, I need a deadline. ...There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ... Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Play, Two, Energy

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• Life is the mistress to be wooed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Life Is

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• But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Single, Independent, Air

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• You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

  Jerry Springer

  Humorous, Fighting, Profound

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

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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• I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted.
  Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

  Ab-Soul

  Girlfriend, Rap, Blood

  Song: God's Reign, 2014

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• I’d say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don’t have to choose.

  Mark Salling

  Wife, Acting, Ems

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• A survey released today found that men spend twice as much on their mistresses for Christmas as they do on their wives. On the other hand, men spend half their income on the wives when the wife finds out about the mistress. So it all balances out.

  Jay Leno

  Men, Hands, Wife

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• In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life,
  the Mistress of Heaven.
  At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.
  Do you remember?

  Merlin Stone

  People, Heaven, Dawn

  Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.36, Doubleday

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• You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sarcastic, Wife, Horny

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.

  Martial

  Winter, Doors, Giving

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• Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

  Marquis de Sade

  Medicine, Needs, Matter

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• The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

  Andrew Sarris

  Mother, Emotional, Wife

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• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Night, Two

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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• Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

  Gerald Abrahams

  Chess, Masters

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• Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

  Philip Roth

  Loyalty, Daughter, Intelligent

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Marriage, Law, House

  The Subjection of Women ch. 4 (1869)

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• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Law

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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• It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.

  Annie Besant

  Sight, Wife, Monogamy

  "Cultural and Religious Heritage of India: Islam". Book by Suresh K. Sharma, Usha Sharm, 2004.

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• 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 comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Study, Painting, Enough

  James Smith, Vincent van Gogh (2001). “Essential Van Gogh”, Parragon Incorporated

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