Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Aristophanes in his comedy called the Wasps;
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nay, more than Bel and the Dragon in Babylon, under King Belshazzar.
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Diogenes being asked at what times a man ought to eat, answered, The rich when he is hungry, the poor when he has anything to eat.
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Euripides has written, and makes Andromache say it, that by industry, and the help of the gods, men had found remedies against all poisonous creatures; but none was yet found against a bad wife.
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No matter, since you are so steadfast, and would have us fast, let us fast as fast as we can, and then breakfast in the name of famine.
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(qui mal y pense)
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(Motteux inserts Chapter XVI. after Chapter VI.)
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which he took more kindly than Artaxerxes did the cup of cold water that was given him by a clown.
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As we went back to our ships I spied behind I don't know what bush, I don't know what folks, doing I don't know what business, in I don't know what posture, scouring I don't know what tools, in I don't know what manner, and I don't know what place.
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Some messengers of ill news told us it was full as easy to get in there as into hell, and no less hard to get out.
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this same stool is somewhat of the lowest for a man that has new breeches and a short doublet.
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My hair still stands up an end when I think on't; and most damnably troubled I was there, for three very weighty reasons. First, because I was troubled. Secondly, because I was troubled. Thirdly and lastly, because I was troubled.
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Now I have left nothing behind me at the wicket through forgetfulness; why then should I think of going thither?
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as good sit still as rise up and fall; what cannot be cured must be endured.
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they might full as well have called 'em necessity; for necessity has no law.
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One removed the toothache only with washing thrice the root of the aching tooth with elder-vinegar, and letting it dry half-an-hour in the sun.
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Penthesilea;
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subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety,
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When they wanted to eat or drink, they turned down the back-points or flaps of their cowls forwards below their chins, and that served 'em instead of gorgets or slabbering-bibs.
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if every fool should wear a bauble, fuel would be dear.
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so many men so many minds;
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Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt. Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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