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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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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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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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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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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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