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Journal buffer-overflowed's Journal: As Chaucer said 3

In his 1385 work 'Troilus and Criseyde', and I'm paraphrasing here, "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

Ok, so he actually said something along the lines of "Those who are vulnerable should not attack others." Insert a few thornes and other deprecated letters/english forms in there, maybe a nary or two, and you might hit the original. Which being Chaucer, means it was probably collected somewhere. But that's the english origin of the phrase.

I'll let you figure out why I posted this all on your own. Like an excercise.

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If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples.

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