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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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 small make a great.
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Greatness One Liner Small
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Desire Mercy
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
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Authority Desire Husband Lover Position Rule Woman
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Gold Iron One Liner Rust Worth
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Death Heaven Man World
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Appearance Herself Love One Liner Rose
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Fingers Gold Honesty One Liner
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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Best Himself Love Man Marriage Person Possible Quite Woman
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Alone Brother Himself Politics
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
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Animal Care Cat Milk
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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Flesh Grief Happiness Heart Myself
One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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God Life Oneself Secret Wife

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