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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Cook Food Strike
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
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Desire Mercy
Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Conquer One Liner Patience Virtue
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
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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Complain Endurance Learning Oneself Word
The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Alive Ear Eyes Field Forest Nature
Men love newfangleness.
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Love Man One Liner
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
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Flesh Grief Happiness Heart Myself
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Fingers Gold Honesty One Liner
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Believe God Himself Obey Teaching
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Distance Foreign Heart Land Nature People Pilgrimage Seek
In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Alcohol Fall Flower Pierce Power Season
We little know the things for which we pray.
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One Liner Prayer
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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Goodness Lying Man Missing Moral Truth Writing

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

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