That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Many small make a great.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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