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• All that glitters is not gold" is from _Parabolae_, a book of poems written circa 1175 by Alanus de Insulis, a French monk
  _Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum_ = "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold"....
• For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 445...
• And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 565...
• Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Frankeleines Tale, Line 11789...
• In his owen grese I made him frie. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 6069
• To maken vertue of necessite. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 3044
• For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
  But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre....
• Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 2408...
• The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 4051...