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tasan ei käy onnen lahjat

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From the Finnish translation of The Tales of Ensign Stål (original by Johan Ludvig Runeberg); the original Swedish text was ojämnt falla ödets lotter (unevenly fall the lots of fate) (the Finnish term is, however, not a calque).

Proverb

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tasan ei käy onnen lahjat

  1. not everyone is blessed with luck