One never gets more than one’s money’s worth of anything.
More French Proverbs:
Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.French
Who wives for a dower, resigns his own power.
French
Great talkers are not great doers.
French
What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on the tongue of the drunkard.
French
A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
French
You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father.
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