More French Proverbs

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Set your sail to the wind.... >>

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A hundred years of fretting will not pay a halfpenny of debt.... >>

Other Proverbs

He who serves many masters must neglect some of them.... (Spanish) >>

For want of a nail the shoe is lost.... (Spanish) >>

God makes the back to the burden.... (Spanish) >>

He does not a little who burns his house: he frightens the r... (Spanish) >>

He that marries a widow will often have a dead man's head th... (Spanish) >>

A little absence does much good.

- French Proverb