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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
• Send them home as merry as crickets. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap. xxix
• He did not care a button for it. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvi
• He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lxii...
• A good crier of green sauce. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xxxi
• How well I feathered my nest. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvii
• Looking as like... as one pea does like another. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap.
  ii...
• Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book ii, Chap. xvi...
• And so on to the end of the chapter. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. x