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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Francois Rabelais

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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
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
A habit does not a monk make.
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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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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse

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