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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431366" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gascon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I AM always inclined to suspect<br> The best story under the sun<br>As soon as by chance I detect<br> That teller and hero are one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We're all of us prone to conceit,<br> And like to proclaim our own glory,<br>But our purpose we're apt to defeat<br> As actors in chief of our story.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To prove the truth of what I state<br>Let me an anecdote relate:<br>A Gascon with his comrade sat<br>At tavern drinking. This and that<br> He vaunted with assertion pat.<br> From gasconade to gasconade<br> Passed to the conquests he had made<br> In love. A buxom country maid,<br>Who served the wine, with due attention<br>Lent patient ear to each invention,<br> And pressed her hands against her side<br> Her bursting merriment to hide.<br> To hear our Gascon talk, no Sue<br> Nor Poll in town but that he knew;<br> With each he'd passed a blissful night<br> More to their own than his delight.<br> This one he loved for she was fair,<br> That for her glossy ebon hair.<br>One miss, to tame his cruel rigour,<br>Had brought him gifts.--She owned his vigour<br> In short it wanted but his gaze<br> To set each trembling heart ablaze.<br> His strength surpassed his luck,--the test--<br>In one short night ten times he'd blessed<br> A dame who gratefully expressed<br> Her thanks with corresponding zest.<br> At this the maid burst forth, &quot;What more?<br> &quot;I never heard such lies before!<br> &quot;Content were I if at that sport<br> &quot;I had what that poor dame was short.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=La+Fontaine">La Fontaine</a><div class=q>
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 The best story under the sun
As soon as by chance I detect
 That teller and hero are one.

We're all of us prone to conceit,
 And like to proclaim our own glory,
But our purpose we're apt to defeat
 As actors in ch..."></div>
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