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 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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