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Parole de Socrate

Jean De La Fontaine
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“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

Jean De La Fontaine book Parole de Socrate

"Parole de Socrate", as quoted in The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations (1998), edited by C. Robertson

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