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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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