What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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