Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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