The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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