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About Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is most famous as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
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Additional quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.
"Just as there never died a man," quoth he, "But he had lived on earth in some degree, Just so there never lived a man," he said, "In all this world, but must be sometime dead. This world is but a thoroughfare of woe, And we are pilgrims passing to and fro;"
It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.