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  What it means

  “Better to lose with a wise person than to find with a fool.” The company you keep matters more than the outcome. Sharing misfortune with someone intelligent is preferable to sharing good fortune with someone foolish.

  Vocabulary

  • mądry — wise, smart
  • zgubić — to lose
  • głupi — foolish, stupid
  • znaleźć — to find

  Grammar note

  'Z mądrym' and 'z głupim' use the instrumental case after the preposition 'z' (with).

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