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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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