There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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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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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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