But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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