One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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