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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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