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Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton
Life
Heart
Words
Virtues
Guide
Give
Lean
Unto
She
Mistress
Hear
Prudence
Maxims
Human
Store
Heed
Them
Human Life
Her
Thine
Universal
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov
Tired
Wife
Medicine
Other
Spend
Lawful
Mistress
Get
Literature
Medical
Night
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Me
Power
Too
Take
Allow
Mistress
Anyone
Worked
Hard
Away
Conquest
Her
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness
Life
Dance
Through
Leads
Mistress
None
Same
Grand
Us
Ceremonies
Route
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 master and a jealous mistress.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Life
Jealous
Jealousy
Me
Rest
My Life
Master
Live
Out
Would
Unprincipled
Give
Give Me
Rather
Cotton
Opened
Mistress
Till
Than
Plantation
Grave
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams
Man
Simplicity
Betrayed
Most
Mistress
Deceitful
Ever
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Marquis de Sade
Faith
Good
Will
Lover
Would
See
He
Sincere
Dead
Mistress
His
Deny
Than
Unfaithful
Prefer
Good Faith
MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
Paulo Coelho
Facebook
Wife
Myspace
Mistress
England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke
Good
Sometimes
Wife
Mistress
Very
America
Get
England
Away
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac
Husband
First
Lover
Other
Way
Runs
Himself
Mistress
Always
His
Second
Thinks
Success is a very tough mistress. For years, while you're struggling, she wants nothing to do with you. Then one day, you find yourself in the room with her, and even though the key is on the inside, you can't leave.
Peter Finch
Success
Day
You
Yourself
Key
Tough
Nothing
One Day
Though
Find
Inside
Struggling
She
Mistress
Leave
Years
Very
Wants
While
Room
Success Is
Then
Even
Her
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.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Good
Man
Together
Wife
Will
Nights
Intimacy
Degenerate
Lay
Absolutely
Soon
Days
Well
Contempt
Mistress
Pass
His
Infallibly
Familiarity
Disgust
Aside
Breeding
Coarse
Good Breeding
Productive
Who
Ever
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
Constantly
Only
Town
Like
Retreat
Mistress
Dwell
Little
Should
Away
Near
Night
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hate
More
Mistress
Ready
Loves
Her
I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
Anita Baker
Music
Me
Creative
Mother
Stress
Wife
Made
Daughter
Sister
Lover
Numerous
Way
Harsh
Find
About
Songwriter
Attempts
Come
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
She
Mistress
Does
Midst
Producer
Thing
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Time
Son
Experience
Spices
Birth
Had
Wrote
Unusual
Mistress
After
Second
Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Writing
Spices
Important
Differences
Mistress
Always
Been
Motive
Right
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Dreams
Man
Weaknesses
About
Mistress
His
Much
Her
Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.
George Etherege
Love
Good
Old
Understanding
New
Mistress
Quarrel
Coming
Old One
Next
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, and the good mistress of my childhood.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Good
Mind
Pure
Master
Inculcated
Destroy
Had
Principles
Mistress
His
Years
Done
Childhood
Grandmother
Foul
Utmost
Images
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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Service
Family
First
Some
Share
Mistress
Years
Accustomed
Children
Flint
Dr
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
Money
Thou
Mistress
How
Use
I would be heartbroken if I found out my husband had a mistress.
Jes Macallan
Husband
Out
Would
Would-Be
Had
Mistress
Heartbroken
Found
Not exactly sure there can be a final chapter to Thanos, considering what he is and his relationship with Mistress Death. Might just be that as long as there is a Marvel, there will be a Thanos to plague that universe's heroes.
Jim Starlin
Death
Relationship
Chapter
Heroes
Will
Long
Just Be
Universe
Final
Considering
Exactly
Marvel
He
Sure
Mistress
His
Just
Plague
Might
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistress of somebody.
Joanna Krupa
Myself
Man
Somebody
Married
Married Man
Could
Never
Mistress
Just
Being
Imagine
Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.
John Constable
Look
Mistress
Fame
Tis
Landscape
Her
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