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qui faites, 'who are aping

22. vous avez beau dire, 'it is ail very well for you to talk'.

24. Un tiens vaut, ce, dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras, literally: — 'one hère it is is better, it is said, than two you shall hâve it'. The French form of the well known and almost universal proverb, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush'.

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