If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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