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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
Novelist
Physician Writer
Writer
Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
Rabelais
Avoid
Seeing
Break
Idiot
Stupidity
Mirror
Mirrors

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