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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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People can die of mere imagination.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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