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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Francois Rabelais

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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
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
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
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
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
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 am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
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
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing

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