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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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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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