The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In love there is but little rest.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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