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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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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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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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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All good things must come to an end.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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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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