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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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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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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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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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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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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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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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