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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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All good things must come to an end.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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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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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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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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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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