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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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
Lawyer
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start
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It is no use running to set out betimes is the main point.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]
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Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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I bend but do not break.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
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In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
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Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
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