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Jean de La Fontaine

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

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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."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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