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'By nature, men love newfangledness.'

'Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.'

'Love is blind.'

'The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.'

'Time and tide wait for no man.'

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http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm Biography
http://geoffreychaucer.org/ A Guide
http://www.information-britain.co.uk/hoteltowns.cfm?town=Canterb Canterbury
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking - Humphry Davy
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St Augustine Introduces Julian Calendar to England - 0597, William the Conqueror crowned - 1066, Domesday Book Commissioned - 1085, First Christmas Tree in Britain - 1800, Mrs Beeton Published - 1861, End of the Soviet Union - 1991
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