A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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