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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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