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With the transfer of the sections on La Fontaine's fables to an article of their own, it seemed a good opportunity to cut out from them the pompously wordy and opinionated material taken from century-old encyclopedias. Neither their style nor the unreferenced content fitted the format of Wikipedia. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 18:37, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note: this phrase does note make sense: "the unfailing humor of the pointed the consummate art of their apparent artlessness." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.250.12.93 (talk) 12:42, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. At some point "moral," got deleted. I've restored it. Phil wink (talk) 16:25, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]