Vler e lene e cul chêld.
“You can't have the wool and the warm backside too.”
You cannot have every advantage at once; some choices demand a trade-off.
— Traditional San Marino & Romagna Wisdom, San Marino
Source: Traditional Romagnol dialect proverb (San Marino / Romagna regional oral tradition), public-domain — Wikiquote: Romagnol proverbs
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