Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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