Men love newfangleness.
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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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