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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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