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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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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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If you wish to be good Pantagruelists (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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