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By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
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
Playwright
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Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Patience
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Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.
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The good, we do it the evil, that is fortune man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
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The ruins of a house may be repaired why cannot those of the face?
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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