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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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