Man learns little from success, but much from failure.
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When a snake gets warm on ice, then a German will wish well to a Czech.
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Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
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Spread the table and contention will cease.
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The fairer the hostess the fouler the reckoning.
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It is ill sitting at Rome and striving against the Pope.
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