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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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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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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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