Francois Rabelais Quotes About Monk
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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