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To compare is not to improve


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FRENCH PROVERB Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
FRENCH PROVERB Skeptics are never deceived.
FRENCH PROVERB People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
FRENCH PROVERB In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
FRENCH PROVERB Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
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FRENCH PROVERB Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
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FRENCH PROVERB Anger is a bad counselor.
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FRENCH PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
FRENCH PROVERB Don't bark if you can't bite.
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FRENCH PROVERB Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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FRENCH PROVERB There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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FRENCH PROVERB When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it
FRENCH PROVERB The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry
FRENCH PROVERB To leave a place is to die a little
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FRENCH PROVERB Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face.
FRENCH PROVERB Who loves well, chastises well.
FRENCH PROVERB The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old (on reversed governing).
FRENCH PROVERB Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical
FRENCH PROVERB Fresh fish and new-come guests smell when they are three days old.
FRENCH PROVERB Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble
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FRENCH PROVERB Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve.
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FRENCH PROVERB A surgeon should be young a physician old.
FRENCH PROVERB Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.
FRENCH PROVERB A hungry clown is half mad.
FRENCH PROVERB Liars need good memories
FRENCH PROVERB Set your sail to the wind.
FRENCH PROVERB A good lawyer, a bad neighbour.
FRENCH PROVERB All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment
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FRENCH PROVERB A late Easter, a long cold spring.
FRENCH PROVERB Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB I know by my own pot how the others boil.
FRENCH PROVERB A bad bush is better than an open field.
FRENCH PROVERB This creature is very wicked. He defends himself when attacked.
FRENCH PROVERB Ready money works great cures
FRENCH PROVERB A white wall is the fool's paper
FRENCH PROVERB One for sorrow; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for a birth.
FRENCH PROVERB Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.
FRENCH PROVERB Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
FRENCH PROVERB Fear is a great inventor.
FRENCH PROVERB Life is an onion and one peels it crying
FRENCH PROVERB A good hater; a good lover
FRENCH PROVERB By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
FRENCH PROVERB He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear
FRENCH PROVERB When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
FRENCH PROVERB God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home
FRENCH PROVERB He who is judge between two friends loses one of them
FRENCH PROVERB Life works out - but not as you expect it
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FRENCH PROVERB A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.
FRENCH PROVERB There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich
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FRENCH PROVERB Ill seed, ill weed
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FRENCH PROVERB Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do
FRENCH PROVERB Who is angry must be pleased again.
FRENCH PROVERB People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting
FRENCH PROVERB Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first.
FRENCH PROVERB Who punishes one threatens a hundred
FRENCH PROVERB It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
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FRENCH PROVERB What was hard to endure is sweet to recall
FRENCH PROVERB Who never climbed, never fell.
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FRENCH PROVERB He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.
FRENCH PROVERB He who makes excuses, accuses himself
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FRENCH PROVERB Forewarned, forearmed.
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