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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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