And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Many small make a great.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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