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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon. Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking."

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]

You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

Stir up the hornets.

A crier of green sauce.

You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned.

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

He beat the bushes without taking the birds. battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]

Panurge had a flea in his ear.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.