Men love newfangleness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In love there is but little rest.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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