- Jean de la Fontaine
(07/08/1621 – 04/13/1695)
French writer
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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."
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| "I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem." |  |
"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
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"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."
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"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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"I didn't say that I didn't say it, I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear."
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty."
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"With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump."
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"He had delusions of adequacy."
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"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
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"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
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"Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns—they don't admit that."
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"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."
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| "I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat." |
"There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars."
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| Born 07/07 | Born 07/08 | Born 07/09 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 07/07 | Died 07/08 | Died 07/09 | Death Dates |