More French Proverbs
The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds....
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True nobility is invulnerable....
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Tough times don't last but tough people do....
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The last comers are often the masters....
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The benefice must be taken with its liabilities....
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Other Proverbs
Familiarity breeds contempt....
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Every man hath his hobby-horse....
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Whom God loves, his bitch litters pigs....
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Under my cloak I command the king....
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When I was born I wept, and every day brings a reason why....
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He who goes to collect wool may come back shorn.
- French Proverb