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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:52
AUTHOR:Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION:The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, 1
Th’ assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.
ATTRIBUTION:The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Ars longa, vita brevis (Art is long: life is brief).—Hippocrates: Aphorism i. [back]
 

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