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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Francois Rabelais

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
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Anand Thakur
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
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
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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