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 CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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