Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
Don't limp in front of the lame.
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.