My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Men love newfangleness.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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