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• Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
• The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
• And she was fair as is the rose in May.
• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
• The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
• Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
• There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
• People can die of mere imagination.
• Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk...
• There's never a new fashion but it's old.
• For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign…
• In the stars is written the death of every man.

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