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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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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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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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