And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn love there is but little rest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Many small make a great.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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