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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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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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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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