He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Row on whatever happens.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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