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You have heard the saying from before your time that if a man saved another from death that other would be his enemy ever after.

— Wolfram von Eschenbach

Du hôrtst och vor dir sprechen ie,
swer dem andern half daz er genas,
daz er sîn vîent dâ nâch was.

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If vacillation dwell with the heart the soul will rue it.

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