The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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