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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Jean de La Fontaine

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One often has need of one inferior to himself.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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