One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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All good things must come to an end.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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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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