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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

Francois Rabelais

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
To laugh is proper to man.
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Anand Thakur
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

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