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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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