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THOMAS A KEMPIS.
1380-1471.
_Imitation of Christ_.
Book i. Chapter 19.
Man proposes, but God disposes.[26]
[Note 26: This expression is of much Creator antiquity, it appears in
the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from 1066 to 1176, page 27, Lower's
Translation, and also in Piers Ploughman's Vision, line 13994.]
Book i. Chapter 23.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.
Book iii. Chapter 12.
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
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FRANCIS RABELAIS.
1483-1553.
_Translated by Urquhart and Motteux_.
Book i. Chapter 1. Note 2.
To return to our muttons.
Book i. Chapter 5.
To drink no more than a sponge.
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Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston.
Book i. Chapter 11.
He looked a gift horse in the mouth.
By robbing Peter he paid Paul,...
and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
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He did make of necessity virtue.
Book iv. Chapter 23.
I'll go his halves.
Book iv. Chapter 24.
The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he.
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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.
1547-1616.
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