One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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