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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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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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For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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