There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Many small make a great.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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