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Man Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
- In the stars is written the death of every man.
- Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
- Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
- . . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a…
- No empty handed man can lure a bird
- Time and tide wait for no man.
- Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
- A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie, An outridere, that lovede venerie, A manly man, to been an abbot able.
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