More French Proverbs
A courtier should be without feeling and without honour....
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The Italians cry, the Germans bawl, and the French sing....
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By working in the smithy one becomes a smith....
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If you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned....
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Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows....
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Other Proverbs
The mouth and the purse, shut....
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Good fences make good neighbors...
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Better wed over the mixen than over the moor....
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To a hasty demand a leisure reply....
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Two blacks don't make a white....
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To want to forget something is to remember it.
- French Proverb