For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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