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Pray tell me, does your time lie so heavy upon you in your world that you do not know how to bestow it better than in thus impudently talking, disputing, and writing of our sovereign lady?

— François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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Source: Chapter 19 : How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy
Work: Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1532
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