A habit does not a monk make.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBelieve me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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