The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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