A crier of green sauce.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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