Many a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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In love there is but little rest.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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