What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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