What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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All good things must come to an end.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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