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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (English poet, 1342-1400)

“This world is but a thoroughfare of woe
And we are pilgrims passing to and fro.
Death is the end of every worldly sore.”

  • From Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (The Knight’s Tale), translated by Neville Coghill (Penguin Classics, 2003).

 

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