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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.

Francois Rabelais

Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Company Law Misery
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
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
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
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
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Command Myself Power Rule
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
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
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
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
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner

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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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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