More French Proverbs
One always knocks oneself in the sore place....
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Great boasters, little doers....
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Honest poverty is thinly sown....
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He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning hims...
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He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot....
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Other Proverbs
Man has responsiblity, not power...
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Let it be a husband, though it be but a log....
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Gifts break (or dissolve) rocks....
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One wedding brings another....
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A blind man's wife needs no paint....
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There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers.
- French Proverb