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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends proverbe polonais : des amis vous protègent mieux qu'une clôture.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Good fences make good neighbors proverbe du XVIIe siècle, mais rendu célèbre par le poème “Mending Wall” de Robert Frost : une bonne clôture garantit de bonnes relations de voisinage.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Il ne faut pas qu'une clôture ait plus de valeur ou d'importance que ce qu'elle protège proverbe hébreu.
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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And if things get a bit boring, you clap your hands, dim the lights and your cybernetic living sculptures begin to perform a Carmontellian proverbe, titled, perhaps, Le Nord.
The Return of the Intergalactic Planetary Landscape Architect 2008
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And if things get a bit boring, you clap your hands, dim the lights and your cybernetic living sculptures begin to perform a Carmontellian proverbe, titled, perhaps, Le Nord.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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D'ailleurs un proverbe arabe dit un truc dans le genre (desole je ne sais plus vraiment mais l'esprit y est): Ne baisse pas les bras car tu risques de le faire 5 minutes avant la fin de la guerre. (vous pouvez verifier ce proverbe dans le roman d'Amelie Nothomb 'acide sulfurique')
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Therefore, that we may the more advisedly stand upon our owne guard, and to prevent the common proverbe, That Women (in all things) make choyse of the worst: I desire that this dayes last tale, which is to come from my selfe, may make us all wise.
The Decameron 2004
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Thence he begins to return rapidly, but by perceptible degrees, to the old hand, until, on the recto of folio 31, and a page or two before it, he writes, illegibly to most modern eyes, as in fac-simile No. 3, "_a proverbe_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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"Quand l'élève est prêt arrive le maître." (proverbe bouddhiste) "Les hommes discutent, la nature agit."
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Pour lui le proverbe se transformait: On a souvent besoin d'un plus laid que soi.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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