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• You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

  Topics in French Proverbs, Life
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  A clown enriched knows neither relation nor friend.

  Topics in French Proverbs, Friendship

  Tags in Relation, Clown
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  A sparrow in hand is worth more than a vulture flying.

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  Tags in Sparrow, Vulture, Worth
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  At the king’s court every one for himself.

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  Tags in Himself, Court
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  A fool’s speech is a bubble of air.

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  Tags in Speech, Bubble, Fool
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  Hope is the dream of the waking man.

  Topics in Dream, French Proverbs

  Tags in Hope

• You must not throw stones into your neighbor’s garden.

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• You may know the lion by his claw.

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• You may as well give a good beating as a bad one.

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• You cannot make bricks without straw.

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• You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.

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• You cannot make an ass drink if he is not thirsty.

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• You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard.

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• You cannot get oil out of a wall.

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• Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

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• Write injuries in dust, But kindnesses in marble. [Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable, Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre.]

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• Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

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• To rob a robber is not robbing.

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• To rise at six, eat at ten, sup at six, go to bed at ten, makes a man live years ten times ten.

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• To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.

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