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 CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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