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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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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