FRFrancis Rabelais

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Francis Rabelais

Life dates: 1495 AD — 1553 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1524 AD

What cannot be cured must be endured.

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02c. 1524 AD

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

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03c. 1524 AD

It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.

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04c. 1524 AD

Necessity has no law.

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05c. 1524 AD

Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.

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06c. 1524 AD

We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen.

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07c. 1524 AD

Others made a virtue of necessity.

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08c. 1524 AD

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

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09c. 1524 AD

I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

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