Book VIII, ch. 9. Compare: "What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly", François Rabelais, Works, Book V, ch. 11.
Gil Blas (1715-1735)
“What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 11.
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