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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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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 were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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