My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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