The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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