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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
Novelist
Physician Writer
Writer
Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
Rabelais
Incomparably
Gestures
Effective
Attractive
Valuable
Marriage
Words
Love

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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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If you wish to be good Pantagruelists (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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