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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Francois Rabelais

Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Anand Thakur
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
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 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
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
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
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
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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