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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
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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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
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
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
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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Anand Thakur
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
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
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
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
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

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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