In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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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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 devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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