“Losers always meet with mockery, Heaven sides with the fortunate.”

Der schadehafte erwarp ie spot:
sælden pflihtær dem half got.
Bk. 6, st. 289, line 11; p. 151.
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Der schadehafte erwarp ie spot: sælden pflihtær dem half got.

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