By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks i… - François Rabelais

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By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.

François Rabelais
Gargantua (1534)

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François Rabelais (ca. 1493 – April 9 1553) was a French humanist writer of satirical romances.

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Alternative Names: Francois Rabelais • Rabelais • Françoys Rabelais

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He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

You have there hit the nail on the head.

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, … and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. - François Rabelais

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