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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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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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