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To laugh is proper to man.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
Novelist
Physician Writer
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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Laughter
Laugh
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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