“Tuvo un efecto desafortunado sobre el entendimiento y el temperamento humanos, que un hombre se viera obligado en su más grave investigación de un argumento, a considerar, no lo que es verdad, sino lo que es conveniente.”

Original: «It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient».
Fuente: Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: with Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century, Volumen 1. Autor William Godwin Editor T. Davison, 1803. p. 370.