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He that has patience may compass anything.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Looking as like... as one pea does like another.
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It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Oh thrice and four times happy those who plant cabbages!
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
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He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
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Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.
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Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.
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Go hang yourselves [critics]... you shall never want rope enough.
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I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.
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I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.
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Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
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I am going to seek the great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Happy is the physician, whose coming is desired at the declension of a disease.
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Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub.
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One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. But the thirst goes away with drinking.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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A most subtle question: whether a chimera buzzing in a vacuum can devour second intentions.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
François Rabelais
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Born:
1494
Died:
April 19, 1553
(aged 59)
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