One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Many small make a great.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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