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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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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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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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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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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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