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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
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