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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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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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