And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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