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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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