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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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For time lost may not recovered be.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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All good things must come to an end.
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End Goodness

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