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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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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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