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Cut my cote after my cloth.
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Il en coûte bien cher pour mourir à Paris.
— Les Etourdis, Act I., Sc. II. — (Daiglemoni).
— To die in Paris costs a pretty penny.
— François Andrieux Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 56.
Cut my cote after my cloth.
— Part I, chapter 8. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))
La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte.
— The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, letter to d'Alembert, July 7, 1763. See also Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XXXIX. N. 100. Phrase "C'est le premier pas qui coûte" attributed to Cardinal Polignac.
Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coûte à vaincre la pudeur.
— It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Pensées Chrétiennes et Morales. LX.
Cut my cote after my cloth.
— Godly Queene Hester, Interlude (1530). Expression said to be a relic of the Sumptuary Laws.
La musique est un bruit qui coûte cher.
— Leopold II of Belgium. [ ]
