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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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