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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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