Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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