When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I build only living stones–men.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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