There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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Many small make a great.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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