Qui veut prendre un oiseau, qu’il ne l’effarouche.To scare a bird is not the way to catch it.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTo scare a bird is not the way to catch it.
Tradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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- Henry G. Bohn · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (1857) · FRENCH PROVERBS · paragrafo 1103 · «Qui veut prendre un oiseau, qu’il ne l’effarouche.»
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