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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Men love newfangleness.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Many small make a great.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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