Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Anand Thakur
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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