The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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 life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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