More French Proverbs
The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds....
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Fair, good, rich, and wise, is a woman four stories high....
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It is not enough to have cabbage, one must have something to grease it...
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He is a fool who makes his physician his heir....
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For sake of the knight the lady kisses the squire....
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Other Proverbs
Necessity never made a good bargain....
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Blind is the bookless man....
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The devil owed a cake and paid a loaf....
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Who has no bread to spare should not keep a dog....
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What is new cannot be true....
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Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep.
- French Proverb