The Counts of Toulouse and the Cross of Toulouse: Occitan: Some Selected Sayings.
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Per èstre urous, n' ès que de s'en creire.
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To be happy, it is enough to think you are.
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Calquecop le pa que be quand las denses s'en soun anandos.
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Sometimes the bread arrives after the teeth have gone.
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Ten le gendre lèns è le tiu femouriè proche.
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Keep your son-in-law at a distance and your manure close at hand.
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Fennos, libres è chabals se prèston pas.
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Wives, books and horses should not be lent.
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Ibal mès un repetit à la padeno qu'uno auco que bolo à la sereno.
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Better a wren in the pan than a goose in the sky.
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Qui beu amarguent pot pos escupi dous.
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Who drinks bitter cannot spit sweet.
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Fenno morto, capél nou.
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Dead wife: new hat.
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