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English
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Poet
1343 -
October 25
, 1400
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Women
Wife
Wise
Brave
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Life
Long
Short
Learn
By nature, men love newfangledness.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nature
Love
Men
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Work
Well
May
He
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Love
Love Is
Blind
Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Man
Time
Wait
Tide
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Rose
She
Fair
May
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Think
Talk
Guilty
Themselves
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Desire
Something
Us
Thing
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Age
You
Old Age
Will
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
First
Taught
He
Wrought
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer
People
Intelligence
Greatest
Wisest
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Soul
Fat
Body
Will
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fashion
New
Never
Old
People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
People
Imagination
Die
Mere
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Man
Busy
He
Than
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Know
Things
Pray
Little
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fresh
Month
May
He
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Will
Out
Conclusion
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