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Why some have bigger noses than others
- What is the cause, said Gargantua, that Friar John hath such a fair nose?
- Because, said Grangousier, that God would have it so, who frameth us in such form and for such end as is most agreeable with his divine will, even as a potter fashioneth his vessels.
- Because, said Ponocrates, he came with the first to the fair of noses, and therefore made choice of the fairest and the greatest.
- Pish, said the monk, that is not the reason of it, but, according to the true monastical philosophy, it is because my nurse had soft teats, by virtue whereof, whilst she gave me suck, my nose did sink in as in so much butter. The hard breasts of nurses make children short-nosed.
-- François Rabelais, "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
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