Geoffrey Chaucer — "But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre."
But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, an ironic observation on the Oxford Clerk's dedication to philosophy over worldly wealth.
Date: c. 1387-1400
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