If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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 is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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