Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Men love newfangleness.
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