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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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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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Men love newfangleness.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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