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Many a true word is spoken in jest

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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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.
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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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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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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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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