Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Many small make a great.
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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.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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