Haich gul bay khaar naist
“There is no flower without thorns.”
Nothing beautiful or good comes without some difficulty or flaw.
— Traditional Afghanistan Wisdom, Afghanistan
Source: Traditional Afghanistan proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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