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Chaucer was a courtier under the King (more than one, if I remember correctly) and went on missions to places such as France and Spain.
Of course he is best known as being a poet and so ultimately found that royalty made excellent patrons for the arts.
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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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