With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWomen 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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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