Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Many small make a great.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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