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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

Francois Rabelais

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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
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
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
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
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Anand Thakur
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
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
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
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

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