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No noble man ever hated good wine.

Francois Rabelais

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Togetherness
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
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
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
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
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
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
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Anand Thakur
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
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
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself

No noble man ever hated good wine.

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