2214 French Proverbs / Page 111
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You never get clean flour from a coal sack.2202.
You often meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it.2203.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.2204.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.2205.
You play with edged tools.2206.
You pull chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paws.2207.
You recognize the saint by his miracle.2208.
You sell more herrings on the market than sole.2209.
Young men forgive, old men never.2210.
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do.2211.
Young saints, old devils.2212.
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.2213.
Youth may stray afar yet return at last.2214.
Youth must be served.