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| French Proverb - E
Easy to say is hard to do.Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.Eggs are put to hatch on a chance.Elbow-grease is a great preventative of disease.Empty casks make the most noise.Empty rooms make giddy housewives.Envy goes beyond avarice.Every art requires the whole person.Every bird likes its own nest best.Every dog is valiant in his own kennel.Every fool likes his bauble.Every hooked beak is maintained by prey.Every man has his value.Every man to his taste.Every one bears his cross.Every one feels his own burden heavy.Every one has a fool in his sleeve.Every one his own, is but fair.Every one preaches for his own saint.Every one should sweep before his own door.Every potter vaunts his own pot.Every to-morrow brings its bread.Everybody is wise after the thing has happened.Everybody must live.Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.Everything does not fall that totters.Everything goes by favour and cousinship.Everything goes to him who does not want it.Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.Everything may be bought except day and night.Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
[Fr., Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse.]Example is the greatest of all seducers. |
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