Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

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We know little of the things for which we pray.

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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

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

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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

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Proverbe of Chaucer

What shul these clothes thus manyfold,
Lo this hote somers day?
After grete hete cometh cold;
No man caste his pilche away.

Of al this world the large compas
Yt wil not in myn armes tweyne;
Who so mochel wol embrace,

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