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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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