If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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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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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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