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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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