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Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
-Chaucer
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Cats
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all.
-Chaucer
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Guilt
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
-Chaucer
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Habits
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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.
-Chaucer
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Imagination
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People can die of mere imagination.
-Chaucer
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Love
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Love is blind.
-Chaucer
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Prayer
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
-Chaucer
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Teaching
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
-Chaucer
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Time
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Time and tide wait for no man.
-Chaucer
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Wisdom
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
-Chaucer
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Work
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
-Chaucer
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