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Y yo, yo, Sen or, no tendre nunca una querida tan linda como esa querida que lucen los cromos de los libros viciosos! And I, Sir,I'll never havea mistress asbeautifulasthose in the pictures of obscene books!
Divitiae bona ancilla, pessima domina. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
Un homme n'a jamais pu e lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a' lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.
Simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress.
Je n'e cris point d'amour, n'estant point amoureux, Je n'e cris de beaute , n'aiant belle maistresse, Je n'e cris de douceur, n'esprouvant que rudesse, Je n'e cris de plaisir, me trouvant douloureux. I cannot write of love, as I am not in love, I cannot write of beauty, as I have no beautiful mistress, I cannot write of sweetness, as I experience nothing but hardship, I cannot write of pleasure, as I am always in pain.
A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stagesfirst an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
Thetrouble about finding a husband forone'smistress, is that no other man seems quite good enough.
Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit; But Fortune, that has made a mistress of me, Has thrust me out to the wide world, unfurnish'd Of falsehood to be happy.
Music ismy mistress, and she playssecond fiddleto none.
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.
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
Poetry in this latter age hath proved but a mean mistress to such as have whollyaddicted themselves to her, or given their names up to her family. They who have but saluted her on the by, and now and then tendered their visits, she hath done much for, and advanced in the way of their own professions (both the law and the gospel) beyond all they could have hoped, or done for themselves without her favour.
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
A whore may be naked, but a mistress is nude.We are talking class.
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. Thereremainno legalslaves,exceptthemistress ofevery house.
Alas! My dear sir, the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.Painting has been a smiling mistresstomany, but shehasbeenacrueljilttome.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard in conquering her to allowanyone to take her from me, or even to covet her.
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 thee!
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
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.
Just seehow well shegoverns! She is onlya woman, only the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, byall!
Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me No casual mistress, but a wife.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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