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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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
J. de La Fontaine
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Le geai pare des plumes du paon. A bluejay in peacock feathers.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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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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I bend but do not break.
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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The fastidious are unfortunate nothing satisfies them.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]
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Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
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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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