Many small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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 guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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