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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
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
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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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Togetherness
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
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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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
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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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Greatness Myself Seek

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