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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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