If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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.
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