Geoffrey Chaucer Quote

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"Si l'or se rouille que peut faire le fer"

Translations

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne”

Geoffrey Chaucer

“Ye knowe ek that in forme of speeche is change”

“Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe”

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn”

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