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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.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
Rabelais
Goodly
Heaven
Given
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France
Thanks
Thousand
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