One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Men love newfangleness.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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In love there is but little rest.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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