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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Francois Rabelais

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Around Head Missing Moments Right
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Attractive Love Value Word

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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