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Quotation from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
“you must, by a sedulous lecture, and frequent meditation, break the bone, and suck out the marrow”
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, The Author's Prologue, trans. Thomas Urquhart
The prologue compares the reader to a dog with a marrowbone and urges him to look beneath the comic surface for a deeper meaning.
Citation: "you must, by a sedulous lecture, and frequent meditation, break the bone, and suck out the marrow" — François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, The Author's Prologue, trans. Thomas Urquhart. (id rabelais-gargantua-and-pantagruel-q2)
Portrait: Francois Rabelais - Portrait, anonymous / Unidentified painter, Public domain.
