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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Francois Rabelais

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
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
A habit does not a monk make.
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Habit Monk One Liner
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
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
Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
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
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
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
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
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Command Myself Power Rule
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
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
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner

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