One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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