The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Many small make a great.
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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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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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