My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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Many small make a great.
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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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