If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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