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Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
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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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