Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.
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The Squire's Tale, l. 594-95.Geoffrey Chaucer
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There was a common saying in the biz/tech world that “A's hire A's, and B's hire C's,” the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to seine up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.
Neal Stephenson
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.Edmund Spenser
And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother,
Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.Geoffrey Chaucer
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therfore one seldom does it at all.
Philip Stanhope
Love is a thyng as any spirit free.
Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee,
And nat to been constreyned as a thral;
And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.Geoffrey Chaucer
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