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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.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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I bend but do not break.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Silent people are dangerous others are not so. [Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
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