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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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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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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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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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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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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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