Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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