No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.