In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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All good things must come to an end.
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