Better to turn back than to lose your way.
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Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things.Russian
Meanness looks through one eye only, ambition is blind.
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The man is the flame, the woman the glow.
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A drop of water in the eyes of the Tsar costs the country many handkerchiefs.
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There is no honor when there is nothing to eat.
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A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls.
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