Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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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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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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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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