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Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes: . . . 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. . . .
         

. . . 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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This page presents the quote ". . . 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. . . .". Author of this quote is Geoffrey Chaucer. This quote is about foul, men, trust, common man, iron, gold, wonder, rust,.