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1 " people have managed to marry without arithmetic "
― Geoffrey Chaucer , The Canterbury Tales
2 " you will not be master of my body & my property "
3 " we know little of the things for which we pray "
4 " Then the Miller fell off his horse. "
5 " earn what you can since everything's for sale "
6 " you are the cause by which I die "
7 " doctors & druggists wash each other's hands "
8 " people can die of mere imagination "
9 " If gold rusts, what then can iron do? "
10 " No empty handed man can lure a bird "
11 " Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit. "
12 " It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass through which one may see his true friends. "
13 " Who shall give a lover any law?’ Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man. "
14 " Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye! "
15 " The man who has no wife is no cuckold. "
16 " For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps. "
17 " O woman’s counsel is so often cold! A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he had been so merry, so well at ease. "
18 " In general, my liege lady,’ he began, ‘Women desire to have dominion Over their husbands, and their lovers too; They want to have mastery over them. That’s what you most desire—even if my life Is forfeit. I am here; do what you like. "
19 " if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust. "
20 " La moraleja de todas las tragedias es la misma: que la Fortuna siempre ataca a los reinos prepotentes cuando menos lo esperan. "