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Mistress Love, you have one merit and no others: Mistress Affection keeps you company. Else would your rule be sadly wanting!

— Wolfram von Eschenbach

Frou minne, ir habt ein êre,
und wênc decheine mêre.
frou liebe iu gît geselleschaft:
anders wær vil dürkel iwer kraft.

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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.

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

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

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Any brother of mine and I make one person, as do a good man and his good wife.

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