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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of 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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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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