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 CHAUCERIf 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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 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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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