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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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