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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.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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