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Rabelais, monk, writer, scholar, physician, described by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, in his 2008 Nobel Prize lecture, as “the greatest writer in the French language".
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Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition | 
#Clock #QuotsyDec19 @TK-421
Rabelais, monk, writer, scholar, physician, described by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, in his 2008 Nobel Prize lecture, as “the greatest writer in the French language".
And there I began to think that it is very true, which is said, that half the world does not know how the other half lives.
This is the true nature of gratitude. Time gnaws and diminishes all things, but it increases and adds to our good deeds: anytime we have extended a generous hand to a rational human being, that goodness keeps growing and glowing in the man's heart, forever remembered, constantly contemplated.
Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
