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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Francois Rabelais

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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
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
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself

Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

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