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Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer A love grown old is not the love once new.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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