And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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 fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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