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• Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

  Alain Ducasse

  Food, Two, Might

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• When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.

  James Goldsmith

  Jobs, Work, Opportunity

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• What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Kissing

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

  Horace

  Use, Literature, Ifs

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• There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Political

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vacancy, Position

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• I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Freedom, Being Free, Breaking Rules

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

  Propertius

  Faithful, Bent, Threat

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• 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 ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Husband

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

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• A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

  William Wycherley

  Country, Night, House

  'The Country Wife' (1672-3) act 1, sc. 1

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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.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Hype, Simplicity

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.432, Booklassic

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• Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

  William Wycherley

  Finding The One, Next, Pleasure

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• When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

  Stendhal

  Running, Women, Two

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.80, World Classic

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• Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Husband, Italian, French Woman

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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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 213

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• My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Recovery, Cost

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• It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

  John Dryden

  Events, Madness, Fortune

  "The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author".

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• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  Oskar Werner

  Movie, Gambling, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. 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

  Memories, People, Heaven

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

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• Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

  Prince Charles

  Firsts, Adultery, Wales

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

  Les Paul

  Beautiful, Thinking, Wife

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• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Philosophy, Lunch, Political

  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ch. 11 (1966).

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• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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