More French Proverbs
No jesting with edged tools....
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A handful of good life is better than seven barrels of learning....
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Fair things are soon snatched away....
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It is in vain to lean the ox to the water if he is not thirsty....
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A man takes his own wherever he finds it....
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Other Proverbs
If love be timid it is not true....
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No rose is without thorns....
(Afghan) >>
A great man's entreaty is a command....
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New trappings to an old mule....
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Good words fill not a sack....
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Who sows thorns let him not walk bare-foot.
- French Proverb
