Full wise is he that can himself know.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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