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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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London
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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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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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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In love there is but little rest.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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