More French Proverbs
No one is expected to achieve the impossible....
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A great estate is not gotten in a few hours....
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He looks one way and rows another....
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It is folly to gape against an oven....
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A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple....
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Other Proverbs
He who sows peas on the highway does not get all the pods in...
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The blind man is laughing at the bald head...
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Every bean hath its black....
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There is luck in odd numbers....
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Big boast, small roast....
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When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.
- French Proverb