Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Many small make a great.
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