One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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All good things must come to an end.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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