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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Francois Rabelais

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Grand One Liner Seek
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
A crier of green sauce.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Cry One Liner
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Attractive Love Value Word
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War

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