The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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