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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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