More French Proverbs
The benefice must be taken with its liabilities....
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Nothing is more contagious than a bad example....
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The devil was handsome when he was young....
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Let him who feels he has a dirty nose wipe it....
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The candle that goes before, is better than that which comes after....
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Other Proverbs
A blind man's wife needs no paint....
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Ask not after a good man's pedigree....
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Death always comes too early or too late...
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Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant....
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Discreet stops make speedy journeys....
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When the tree is down everybody runs to the branches.
- French Proverb