"Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras."

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Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, V, 3, "Le Petit Poisson et le Pecheur"; reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 231. Alternately reported as Un tient vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras.