The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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