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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

Francois Rabelais

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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Row on whatever happens.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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