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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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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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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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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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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