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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Many small make a great.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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