The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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 cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Many small make a great.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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