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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:47
AUTHOR:Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION:One eare it heard, at the other out it went. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 435.
 
Note 1.
Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.—John Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. ix. [back]
 

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