What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThat field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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