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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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