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Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Laissez dire les sots; le savoir a son prix.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Death never taketh by surprise The well-prepared, to wit, the wise - They knowing of themselves the time To meditate the final change of clime.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Patience and time do more than force and rage.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: S'il fallait condamner tous les ingrats qui sont au monde, à qui pourrait-on pardonner ?

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l’écoute

Description: Jean de La Fontaine: I don't believe that Nature's powers Have tied her hands or pinion'd ours, By marking on the heavenly vault Our fate without mistake or fault. That fate depends upon conjunctions Of places, persons, times, and tracks, And not upon the functions Of more or less of quacks.

Description: Indian Summer by Dorothy Parker In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know, And do the things I do; And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you!

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Description: Inventory by Dorothy Parker Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I’d been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Description: Dorothy Parker: If I abstain from fun and such, I’ll probably amount to much, But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Description: Résumé by Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned;

Description: Dorothy Parker quote: What fresh hell is this?

Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote: It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote: “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote: A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote: "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote: In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away...

Description: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote: “You know—one loves the sunset, when one is so sad . . .”

Description: African Proverb: The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

Description: Francis Bacon quote: It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they could devour.

Description: African Proverb: Knowledge is a garden. If it isn't cultivated, you can't harvest it.

Description: African Proverb: Don’t think there are no crocodiles just because the water is calm.

Description: African Proverb: Once you carry your own water, you will learn the value of every drop.