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.
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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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