Без труда не выловишь и рыбку из пруда.
“Without effort, you can't even pull a fish out of a pond.”
Nothing worthwhile is achieved without hard work.
— Traditional Russia Wisdom, Russia
Source: Traditional Russian proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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