The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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All good things must come to an end.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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