There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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