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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Francois Rabelais

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
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
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
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
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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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
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
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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