More French Proverbs

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Honour blossoms on the grave.... >>

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Paper bears anything.... >>

Other Proverbs

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A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long ti... (Spanish) >>

A buxom widow must be married, buried, or cloistered.... (Spanish) >>

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected... (Italian) >>

God grant you good fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you... (Spanish) >>

It is a good horse that never stumbles.

- French Proverb