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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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In love there is but little rest.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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