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Go hang yourselves [critics]... you shall never want rope enough.

François Rabelais

Here enter not attorneys, barristers,
Nor bridle-champing law-practitioners:
Clerks, commissaries, scribes, nor pharisees,
Wilful disturbers of the people's ease:
Judges, destroyers, with an unjust breath,
Of honest men, like dogs, even unto death.
Your salary is at the gibbet-foot:
Go drink there! for we do not here fly out
On those excessive courses, which may draw
A waiting on your courts by suits in law.

François Rabelais

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

François Rabelais

François Rabelais

François Rabelais

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Born: 1494

Died: April 19, 1553 (aged 59)

Bio: François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs.

Known for:

Le Quart Livre (1552)
The third book of Pantagruel (1546)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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The Works Of Rabelais

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