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Originally Posted by uncle phil
On October 25, 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer died at the age of 57. He was the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey...
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"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge."
— Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry (c. 1340 - 1400)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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