The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Anand Thakur
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHalf the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBring down the curtain, the farce is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPlain as a nose in a man’s face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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