There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Many small make a great.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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