If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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