Full wise is he that can himself know.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFull wise is he that can himself know.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMy house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHarde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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