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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

Francois Rabelais

If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Growth Heaven Thankful
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
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
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
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Agreement Celestial Prayer Scent 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
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Greatness Myself Seek
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
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
A habit does not a monk make.
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Habit Monk One Liner
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
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

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