Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMercy surpasses justice.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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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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For time lost may not 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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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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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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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Men love newfangleness.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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