More French Proverbs
A miserly father makes a prodigal man....
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Everything goes to him who does not want it....
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Nothing is more contagious than a bad example....
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Fine and fine make but a slender doublet....
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Every elm has its man....
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Other Proverbs
A handsome man is not quite poor....
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Elbow grease is the best polish....
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry....
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Every country has its custom....
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He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods in...
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A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years.
- French Proverb