And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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