He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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