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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Francois Rabelais

Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
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
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Agreement Celestial Prayer Scent Wine
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
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
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
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
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
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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