Men love newfangleness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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