My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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