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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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I bend but do not break.
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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