Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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