Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHarde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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