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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Men love newfangleness.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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