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I drink no more than a sponge.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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