In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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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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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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