Geoffrey Chaucer
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male
place of birth
The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.
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"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
— Geoffrey Chaucer
— Geoffrey Chaucer
"What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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— Geoffrey Chaucer
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— Geoffrey Chaucer
"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."
— Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
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."
— Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
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