And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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