My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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In love there is but little rest.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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