If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your fr… - Geoffrey Chaucer

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If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your friends avoid you, sad to say.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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And if that olde bokes were a-weye, Y-loren were of remembraunce the keye.

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

Purity in body and heart
May please some — as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household
Has all of his utensils made of gold;
Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your friends avoid you, sad to say. - Geoffrey Chaucer

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