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"I am just going to leap into the dark."
Francis Rabelais / Motteux's Life.
Motteux's Life.
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"Let down the curtain: the farce is done."
Francis Rabelais / Motteux's Life.
Motteux's Life.
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"He left a paper sealed up, wherein were found three articles as his last will: "I owe much; I have nothing; I give the rest to the poor.""
Francis Rabelais / Motteux's Life.
Motteux's Life.
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"One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man."
Francis Rabelais / To the Reader.
To the Reader.
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"To return to our wethers."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. i. n. 2.
Works. Book i. Chap. i. n. 2.
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"I drink no more than a sponge."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. v.
Works. Book i. Chap. v.
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"Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. v.
Works. Book i. Chap. v.
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"Thought the moon was made of green cheese."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
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"He always looked a given horse in the mouth."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
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"By robbing Peter he paid Paul, . . . and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
Works. Book i. Chap. xi.
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"He laid him squat as a flounder."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. xxvii.
Works. Book i. Chap. xxvii.
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"Send them home as merry as crickets."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. xxix.
Works. Book i. Chap. xxix.
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"Corn is the sinews of war."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. xlvi.
Works. Book i. Chap. xlvi.
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"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book i. Chap. lii.
Works. Book i. Chap. lii.
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"Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.
Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.
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"He did not care a button for it."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.
Works. Book ii. Chap. xvi.
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"How well I feathered my nest."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book ii. Chap. xvii.
Works. Book ii. Chap. xvii.
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"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book ii. Chap. xxix.
Works. Book ii. Chap. xxix.
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"A good crier of green sauce."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
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"Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxii.
Works. Book ii. Chap. xxxii.
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"This flea which I have in mine ear."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iii. Chap. xxxi.
Works. Book iii. Chap. xxxi.
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"You have there hit the nail on the head."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iii. Chap. xxxiv.
Works. Book iii. Chap. xxxiv.
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"Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xix.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xix.
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"I 'll go his halves."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiii.
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"The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiv.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xxiv.
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"Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.
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"I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.
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"Which was performed to a T."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xli.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xli.
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"He that has patience may compass anything."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xlviii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xlviii.
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"We will take the good will for the deed."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. xlix.
Works. Book iv. Chap. xlix.
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"You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. l.
Works. Book iv. Chap. l.
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"Would you damn your precious soul?"
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. liv.
Works. Book iv. Chap. liv.
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"Let us fly and save our bacon."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. lv.
Works. Book iv. Chap. lv.
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"Needs must when the Devil drives."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. lvii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. lvii.
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"Scampering as if the Devil drove them."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
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"He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
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"The belly has no ears, nor is it to be filled with fair words."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
Works. Book iv. Chap. lxii.
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"Whose cockloft is unfurnished."
Francis Rabelais / Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.
Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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"Speak the truth and shame the Devil."
Francis Rabelais / Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.
Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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"Plain as a nose in a man's face."
Francis Rabelais / Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.
Works. The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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"Like hearts of oak."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Prologue to the Fifth Book.
Works. Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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"You shall never want rope enough."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Prologue to the Fifth Book.
Works. Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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"Looking as like . . . as one pea does like another."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter ii.
Works. Book v. Chapter ii.
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"Nothing is so dear and precious as time."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter v.
Works. Book v. Chapter v.
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"It is meat, drink, and cloth to us."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter vii.
Works. Book v. Chapter vii.
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"And so on to the end of the chapter."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter x.
Works. Book v. Chapter x.
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"What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter xi.
Works. Book v. Chapter xi.
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"We have here other fish to fry."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter xii.
Works. Book v. Chapter xii.
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"What cannot be cured must be endured."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter xv.
Works. Book v. Chapter xv.
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"Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free."
Francis Rabelais / Works. Book v. Chapter xv.
Works. Book v. Chapter xv.
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