No clock is more regular than the belly.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel 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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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.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Row on whatever happens.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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