Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
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Anand Thakur
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEEveryone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENever sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESilent people are dangerous; others are not so.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFoxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe 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 FONTAINEA hare is not caught with a drum.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINENothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEOne often has need of one inferior to himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEFrom a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn short, luck’s always to blame.
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