We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBelieve me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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