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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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