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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

Francois Rabelais

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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Anand Thakur
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
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
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Company Law Misery
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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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Hard Time Inspirational Patience Time
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
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
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
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

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

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