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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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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End Fate Handsome Nature Oneself
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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Bed Brave Desire Generosity Live Money Myself Natural Obedience Rich Sex Wife Wisdom Woman
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Occasion Temper Wrong
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Alone Brother Himself Politics
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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Complain Endurance Learning Oneself Word
If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Gold Iron Man Priest Rust Trust
Many small make a great.
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Greatness One Liner Small
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Believe God Himself Obey Teaching
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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Goodness Lying Man Missing Moral Truth Writing
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk True Word
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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Distance Foreign Heart Land Nature People Pilgrimage Seek
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Appearance Clothes Habit Monk Priest Soldier Wear
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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God Man Story Woman Writing
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Angry Force Forgiveness Learning Patience Reach Talk Teaching Virtue Yourself
Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Aware Himself One Liner Wisdom
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Age Chastity Dirty Old Powerful

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