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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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