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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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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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