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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2945518, member: 39&quot;]It&#039;s getting late here, so this is a quick and not exactly poetic translation. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> &quot;Ein Schelm, der mehr gi(e)bt als er hat&quot; means &quot;Only a fool gives more than what he has&quot;. The (e) would not be used in today&#039;s German.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat / dass man vom Liebsten / was man hat / muss scheiden&quot; is a quote from a fairly well known poem and song, <a href="http://ingeb.org/Lieder/esistbes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ingeb.org/Lieder/esistbes.html" rel="nofollow">see here</a>. The text was written by Ernst von Feuchtersleben; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy composed the music. This roughly means &quot;It is determined by God&#039;s advice that one must separate from the dearest that one has&quot; ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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