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Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Time, Wait, Tide
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Women, Wise, Wife
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Talk, Guilty, Themselves
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey Chaucer
May, She, Fair
Love is blind.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Love, Blind
Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Soul, Body, Fat
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Fashion, Old
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Greatest, Wisest, Scholars
By nature, men love newfangledness.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Men, Love, Nature
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Life, Long, Short
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Age, Powerful, Old
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Desire, Forbid
People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Die, Mere
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Work, May, Both
We know little of the things for which we pray.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Pray
First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Taught, Wrought
He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Geoffrey Chaucer
May, Fresh, Month
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Conclusion
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Busy, Nowhere, Busier

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Biography

Nationality: English
Type: Poet
Born: 1343
Died: October 25, 1400

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