Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMy house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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In love there is but little rest.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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