What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Many small make a great.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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