The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.Geoffrey Chaucer
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer
But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folwed it him-selve.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Iyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquenng. .... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this newe corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)
Geoffrey Chaucer
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