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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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
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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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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.
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