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We will take the good-will for the deed.

Francois Rabelais

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Freedom Myself Thinking
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
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
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
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
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick

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