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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
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If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries, I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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