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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Francois Rabelais

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Leave Myself Poor
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
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
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
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
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
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
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
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
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
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue

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