The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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