If you wish to know what a man is, make him king.
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Bad birds seldom bring good weather.
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Gold and green woods.
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Wrath often consumes what god gives husbands.
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A man yearns for his paradise but it could become his hell.
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You can't complain about the sea if you suffer shipwreck for the second time.
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