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

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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