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nuns Quotes

Three of the best book quotes about nuns
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“And well she sang a service, with a fine Intoning through her nose, as was most seemly, And she spoke daintily in French, extremely, After the school of Stratford-atte-Bowe; French in the Paris style she did not know.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Canterbury Tales
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Chaucer the Pilgrim
The Prioress
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“Yes, truly. I speak not as desiring more, But rather wishing a more strict restraint Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.”
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″...he had the illusion that one nun was turning a cartwheel and another was trying to stand on her head. He pulled up, got off his bike and really looked back. Disappointingly, all was normal. ‘I could have sworn I saw it,’ he said.”

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