Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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