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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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