More French Proverbs
He has enough to do who holds the handle of a frying-pan....
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The saint's-day over, farewell the saint....
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For one pleasure a thousand pains....
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It is not the burden but the over-burden that kills the beast....
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Good wine needs no vine....
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Other Proverbs
Pour not water on a drowned mouse....
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Take hold of a good minute....
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He who promises incurs a debt....
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An iron rod bends while it is hot....
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He who would cheat the fox must rise early....
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The days follow each other and are not alike.
- French Proverb
