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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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