An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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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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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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