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• Like hearts of oak.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• Whose cockloft is unfurnished.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• You shall never want rope enough.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• Plain as a nose in a man's face.
• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap.
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• It is meat, drink, -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. vii
• Which was performed to a T. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. xli
• Plain as the nose on a man's face. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
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