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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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