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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Francois Rabelais
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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