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Francois Rabelais

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
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
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
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
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
To laugh is proper to man.
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Anand Thakur
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
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
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

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