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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Francois Rabelais

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
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
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
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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Foolish Present Wisdom
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
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

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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