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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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