Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWomen 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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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.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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