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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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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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