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Old 07-29-2015, 02:07 PM  
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Originally Posted by Mutt View Post
I had a feeling such a great quote didn't originate from an animated children's movie


Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
Book VIII (1678?1679), fable 16 (The Horoscope)
Variant: A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine (July 8 1621 ? April 13 1695) is the most famous French fabulist and probably the most widely read French poet of the 17th century.
I had a feeling the children's movie attribution would be understood as a jest... tough crowd
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