Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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