He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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