There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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