More French Proverbs
A sow is always dreaming of bran....
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Nothing is had for nothing....
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One knows not for whom he gathers....
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One never gets more than one's money's worth of anything....
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That often happens in a day which does not happen in a hundred years....
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Other Proverbs
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else...
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Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked....
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No wind, no waves....
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Close, but no cigar....
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Pain is forgotten where gain comes....
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
- French Proverb
