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The unreferenced quote "the pitcher goes to the well so often that it eventually breaks" is a word-for-word translation of a famous French saying "tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se casse". In French, there is a play on word, since "cruche" means pitcher, and by extension a "airhead" often describing young witless women. Hence the famous play on word by Beaumarchais in "Le mariage de Figaro" about a silly young servant girl who goes to the well to fetch water where she messes around with the son of the masters and gets pregnant "tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle s'emplit" ("the pitcher goes to the well so often that it eventually fills up").
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