Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
Felicity Kendal
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
Gail Sheehy
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
Patrick Fischler
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
Ralph Waite
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Adam Braun
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I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.
Max Euwe
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Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Salvador Dali
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
Xenophon
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer