For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer In the stars is written the death of every man.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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