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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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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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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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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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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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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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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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