"The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer."

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If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.

— Anna Brackett