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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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