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Never did a great man hate good wine.

Francois Rabelais

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
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
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 am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Company Law Misery
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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
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
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust
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
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself

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