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• One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
• The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
• Plain as a nose in a man's face.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap.
  xxix...
• Looking as like... as one pea does like another. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap.
  ii...
• He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lxii...
• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.