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To laugh is proper to man.

Francois Rabelais

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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
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
Appetite comes with eating.
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Appetite Eat One Liner
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
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
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Around Head Missing Moments Right
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
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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Growth Heaven Thankful

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