Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Many small make a great.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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