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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.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries, I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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