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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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François Rabelais. (c. 1490–1553) (continued)
 
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    Like hearts of oak. 1
          Works. The Author’s Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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    You shall never want rope enough.
          Works. The Author’s Prologue to the Fifth Book.
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    Looking as like … as one pea does like another. 2
          Works. Book v. Chap. ii.
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    Nothing is so dear and precious as time. 3
          Works. Book v. Chap. v.
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    And thereby hangs a tale. 4
          Works. Book v. Chap. iv.
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    It is meat, drink, 5 and cloth to us.
          Works. Book v. Chap. vii.
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    And so on to the end of the chapter.
          Works. Book v. Chap. x.
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    What is got over the Devil’s back is spent under the belly. 6
          Works. Book v. Chap. xi.
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    We have here other fish to fry. 7
          Works. Book v. Chap. xii.
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    What cannot be cured must be endured. 8
          Works. Book v. Chap. xv.
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    Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
          Works. Book v. Chap. xv.
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    It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses. 9
          Works. Book v. Chap. xv.
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    Necessity has no law. 10
          Works. Book v. Chap. xv.
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    Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.
          Works. Book v. Chap. xviii.
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    We saw a knot of others, about a baker’s dozen.
          Works. Book v. Chap. xxii.
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    Others made a virtue of necessity. 11
          Works. Book v. Chap. xxii.
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    Spare your breath to cool your porridge. 12
          Works. Book v. Chap. xxviii.
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    I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
          Works. Book v. Chap. xxviii.
 
Note 1.
See Garrick, Quotation 6. [back]
Note 2.
See Lyly, Quotation 16. [back]
Note 3.
See Franklin, Quotation 16. Also Diogenes Laertius, Quotation 59. [back]
Note 4.
See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 26. [back]
Note 5.
See Shakespeare, As You Like It, Quotation 64. [back]
Note 6.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate that what is got over the Devil’s back is spent under his belly.—Alain René Le Sage: Gil Blas, book viii. chap. ix. [back]
Note 7.
I have other fish to fry.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. xxxv. [back]
Note 8.
See Burton, Quotation 56. [back]
Note 9.
See Scott, Quotation 62. [back]
Note 10.
See Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, Quotation 63. [back]
Note 11.
See Chaucer, Quotation 22. [back]
Note 12.
See Plutarch, Quotation 139. [back]