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"He laid him squat as a flounder."
"Needs must when the Devil drives."

François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist
"He laid him squat as a flounder."
"I believe he would make three bites of a cherry."
"Do not believe what I tell you here any more than if it were some tale of a tub."
"The Devil was sick, — the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, — the devil a monk was he."
"Je men vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée."
"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."