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No clock is more regular than the belly.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
Novelist
Physician Writer
Writer
Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
Rabelais
Belly
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Hunger

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He that has patience may compass anything.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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