Wealth Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

““Fortune has dealt us this adversity: Some malign aspect or disposition Of Saturn in some adverse position Has brought it on us; nothing's to be done: It stood thus in our stars when we were born; The long and short of it is this: Endure.””

Geoffrey Chaucer

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“Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?”

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Venus me yaf my lust, my like rousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse.

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“For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.”

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