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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.

Francois Rabelais

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
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
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

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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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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