The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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