A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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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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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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