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when a fool fails he says I was unlucky, when a wise man fails he says what a fool I had been. Song "If I was a Cat" live version.

— Avner Strauss

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Mama Rhino cries out loud, his nose is always the issue, every time he wipes his nose, he rips apart the tissue.

Friends of the Rhino (2005)

The blind man sits in the dark, but for guests he turns on the light.

If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time.

Inside every widow there's a spider that weaves it's webs in the corners of her heart.

When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.

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