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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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God Man Story Woman Writing
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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Born Death Empty Flow Life Myself
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Appearance Clothes Habit Monk Priest Soldier Wear
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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Gold Iron Man Priest Rust Trust
Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Hard Heart Love
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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
Time and tide wait for no man.
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Advice Man One Liner Time Wait
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Occasion Temper Wrong
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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Acceptance Himself Hope Hurt Poor Poverty Rich True
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Age Chastity Dirty Old Powerful
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Art Craft Learning Life Short
Make a virtue of necessity.
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Necessary One Liner Virtue
What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Regret Talk Voice Word Yourself
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Eyes Field Nature Wood
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Death End One Liner Pain World
Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Aware Himself One Liner Wisdom

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