The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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 drink for the thirst to come.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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