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 CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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