And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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