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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
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Born:
1494
Died:
April 19, 1553
(aged 59)
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