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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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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 love there is but little rest.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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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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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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People can die of mere imagination.
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