But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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