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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.

Francois Rabelais

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
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.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
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
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
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
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
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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Growth Heaven Thankful
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
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.

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