And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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