A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThat field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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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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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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