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Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him.

Aesop

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. c. 600.

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Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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I bend but do not break.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le chene et le roseau [The Oak and the Reed]." Fables. Paris, 1668, bk. 1, no. 22.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "The Oak and the Reed." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007, bk. 1, no. 22.

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I bend and I break not.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le chene et le roseau [The Oak and the Reed]." Fables. Paris, 1668, bk. 1, no. 22.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "The Oak and the Reed." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007, bk. 1, no. 22.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. Fables Choisies [La Fontaine's Fables]. Paris: Chez Denys Thierry and Claude Barbin, 1678, bk. 8, no. 1.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Death and the Dying Man." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

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Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le Cartier Embourbe [The Carter in the Mire]." Fables. Paris, c. 1668, bk. 6, no. 17.

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