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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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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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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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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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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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