"Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master."
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"An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses."
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"As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers."
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"Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses."
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"Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects."
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"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
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"I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven."
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"You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute."
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"My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die."
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"By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone."
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"A young mistress is better than an old master."
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"It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her."
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"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 time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?"
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"Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice."
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"Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run inot, Thou has not loved. Of if thou has't not sat as I do now, Wearying they hearer in thy mistress's praise, Thou has not loved. Of if thou hast not broke from company Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, Thou has not loved. (Silvius)"
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"No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt."
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"Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant."
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"I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either."
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"His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation."
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"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907."
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