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French
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mieux que rien
- better than nothing
- C’est mieux que rien ! ― Half a loaf is better than none!; It's better than nothing.
2001, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Diderot ou le matérialisme enchanté:[…] car il nous appartient que les choses changent dans le sens du meilleur, d’un meilleur peut-être précaire, et qui pourrait s’énoncer par cette maxime : mieux que rien, mieux qu’hier et mieux qu’aujourd’hui.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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