“What is one man's gain is another's loss.”
Connor v. Kent (1891), 61 L. J. Rep. Mag. Ca. 18.
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The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
XXV, 58
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.
“What is one man's safety is another man's destruction.”
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 13, Wreck of a Spanish Ship.
“The world is like a market; one community reaps benefit in it while another one faces loss.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 368.
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