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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.

Francois Rabelais

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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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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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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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