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• So was hire joly whistle wel ywette. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 4153
• The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 4051...
• Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone, That shall eat with a fend.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Squieres Tale, Line 10916...
• For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 1044...
• Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Prologue, Line 3880...
• To maken vertue of necessite. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 3044
• But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Chanones Yemannes Tale, Line 16430...
• Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Wif of Bathes Tale, Line 6695...
• Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Monkes Tale, Line 1449...