You don’t have to kill the chicken to get eggs.
More French Proverbs:
A guest and a fish after three days are poison.French
Good swimmers are drowned at last.
French
Kindred without friends, friends without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, profit without virtue, is not worth a rush.
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her to-day, expect not to regain her to-morrow.
French
Possession is as good as a title.
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The dead are soon forgotten.
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