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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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