The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Men love newfangleness.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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