The more noble, the more humble.
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Another man's horse and your own spurs outrun the wind.German
All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket.
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They are not all cooks who carry long knives.
German
A day after the fair.
German
We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows.
German
Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh.
German