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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Francois Rabelais

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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
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
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
To laugh is proper to man.
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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
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Drink Old Physician
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
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
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.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking

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