Quotes with mistresses

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• Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

  William Wycherley
  British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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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
   
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• discreetly
• prejudices
• companions
• politician
• seldom

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