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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.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
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Poet)
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Keywords:
calls,
commoner,
commoners,
name,
name calling,
on it,
rarer,
relies,
relying,
The name,
The Thing
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