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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

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

Jean de La Fontaine

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