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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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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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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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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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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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