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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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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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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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