The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Men love newfangleness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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