A day is long, but a lifetime is short.
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The thief makes perhaps one mistake; those he stole from made a hundred.Russian
The tears of strangers are only water.
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You can't drive straight on a twisting lane.
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Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie.
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The nights are short for him who married late in life.
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Habit is a shirt that we wear till death.
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