More French Proverbs
I never saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That t...
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A muffled cat never caught a mouse....
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Near is my kirkle, but nearer is my smock....
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Like box-makers, more noise than work....
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No living man all things can....
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Other Proverbs
Love is an excuse for its own faults....
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Time heals all wounds....
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He who always tells me a lie never cheats me....
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As are the times, so are the manners....
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He can do but little who cannot threaten another....
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A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.
- French Proverb