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Quotes of French Proverb (Usa)Sayings of Ethiopian Origin
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A father is a banker provided by nature. (fathers)
A surgeon should be young a physician old. (doctors)
He who is near the Church is often far from God. (churches)
Set a thief to catch a thief. (crime and criminals)
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Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. (crime and criminals)
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. (destiny)
Fear is a great inventor. (invention and invent)
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. (destiny)
Nothing is more elegant than ready money! (elegance)
The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest. (busyness)
Those who shine in the second rank, are eclipsed by the first. (deeds and good deeds)
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. (correction)
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering. (gifts)
A good meal ought to begin with hunger. (food and eating)
Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have. (food and eating)
In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done? (government)
People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. (fear)
Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. (glutton)
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. (gambling)
There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. (gambling)
Against change of fortune set a brave heart. (fortune)
No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere. (goals)
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. (life and living)
Nothing resembles an honest man more than a cheat. (honesty)
Great talker, great liar. (lies and lying)
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