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- Geoffrey Chaucer: British poet
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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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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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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Love is blind.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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