Lo, what a powerful thing is emotion! Men may die of imagination, so profoundly can a notion afflict the mind. - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Lo, what a powerful thing is emotion! Men may die of imagination, so profoundly can a notion afflict the mind.

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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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