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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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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