One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Many small make a great.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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