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"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

"Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools."

"You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere."

"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."

"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
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"For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint."

"The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority."

"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved."

"Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason."

"Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously."

"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"

"There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them."
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