There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Many small make a great.
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Men love newfangleness.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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 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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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In love there is but little rest.
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