Nothing Is So Dear And Precious As Time. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book V, Chap.

Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
-- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553)
-- Works, Book v, Chap. v

It is meat, drink, -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. vii
And so on to the end of the chapter. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. x
Others made a virtue of necessity. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xxii
We have here other fish to fry. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xii
We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap.
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What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.
-- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xi...
And thereby hangs a tale. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. iv
Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap.
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I believe he would make three bites of a cherry. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap.
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