But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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Anand Thakur
But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEBut every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEMan is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINESocrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, “Let him beat me too when I am absent.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWhat God does, He does well.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEDeath never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIn every trouble the little ones duck more easily.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINETo hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEAlas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINELet ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEYou’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEWe become innocent when we are unfortunate.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEIt is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINEO love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.
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