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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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