If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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