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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1342-1400)

“Laws are for all, and he who seeks to lay them
On others should by rights himself obey them.”

  • From The Canterbury Tales (The Man of Law’s Play, Introduction) by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

 

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