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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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London
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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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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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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