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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
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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