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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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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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. . . 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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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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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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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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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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