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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Many small make a great.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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