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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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