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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Francois Rabelais

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
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
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
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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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
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
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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