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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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