And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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