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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Francois Rabelais

A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
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
Appetite comes with eating.
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Appetite Eat One Liner
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Greatness Myself Seek
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
Row on whatever happens.
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Hard Time Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty

Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

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