There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERCertain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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