Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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