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- “Love alone means nothing unless you have a tortured heart for it to soothe.”Piper Payne
- “[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.”Thomm Quackenbush
- “But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.”Jane Austen
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Books by Jean de La Fontaine
Fables
2005
The lion and the rat
1963
The North Wind and the Sun
1964
Contes et nouvelles en vers
2009