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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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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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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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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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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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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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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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