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Bélo fenno, miralh de fat.
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Beautiful woman, mirror of a fool.
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Medicis joubes, cementèris boussuts.
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Young physicians: bulging cemeteries.
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Les barralhos an ès è las parets aurelhos.
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Hedges have eyes and walls ears.
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Dos fennos: un mercat. Tres: une fièiro.
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Two women: a market. Three: a fair.
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Le que rira à la finèstro, plourara darrè la porto.
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Who laughs in front of a window will cry behind a door.
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Le que nèich pounjut pot pos mouri carrat.
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He who is born pointed cannot die square.
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Clau d'or è clau d'argent dèrben tout apartment.
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Gold and silver keys open all doors.
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Dabant la mort èle foc nou i a cap de benjenço.
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Against death and fire there is no revenge.
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A cado ausèl soun nits qu'i es bèl.
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To every bird his own nest appears beautiful.
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Ço que tres personnos saben es pos un secrèt
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That which three people know is not a secret
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Cadun biro l'aigo debès soun mouli.
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Everyone diverts the water to his own mill.
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Te bos fèun ennemic ? Prèsto argent à toun amic.
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You want to make an enemy? Lend money to a friend.
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Cal pos cambia un chabal bornhe per un d'abugle.
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Do not swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one.
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A bint ans qui boli. Abint è cinq qui trobi. A trento qui me bol.
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At twenty, whoever I want. At twenty five, whoever I find. At thirty, whoever wants me.
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Uno benso joube è richo, and'un èl plouro, e ande l'autre que plouquejo.
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A young rich widow weeps with one eye and winks with the other.
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Lou d'uno ouro, pa del joun, bi d'un an, peich d'un moument, fenno de quinze ans è amic de trento ans.
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An egg of the hour, bread of the day, wine of a year, fish of the moment, wife of fifteen and friend of thirty years.
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Joube que belho, bièl que dèrm, sinne de mort.
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Youth that stays awake; the old who sleep: indications of death.
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Fenno que manjo pas debant bous, darrè que manjo mès qe dous.
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A woman who does not eat in front of you eats twice as much in secret.
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Si debes, escriu sus l'aciè; Si on te deu, escriu sul sable.
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What is owed to you, write in steel. What you owe, write in sand.
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Qui bol peta pus naut que nou a le tiul, se fa un trauc à l'esquino.
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Who wants to fart higher than his arse, makes a hole in his back-bone.
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