A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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