Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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