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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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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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