I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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