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  1. January 22nd, 2013, 07:53 PM #1
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    Valda: Note the proverb Не сразу Москва строилась! -- Moscow wasn't built all at once!

    Рим не за день построили ("Not by the end of [only] a day did they build Rome") is also well-known with slight variants in the phrasing, but AFAIK it's considered a borrowing from either English or French -- not a "native" expression.
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    It's "Москва не сразу строилась". Never heard your version.
    Я изучаю английский язык и поэтому делаю много ошибок. Но я не прошу Вас исправлять их, Вы можете просто ткнуть меня носом в них, или, точнее, пихнуть их мне в глаза. I'm studying English, and that's why I make a lot of mistakes. But I do not ask you to correct them, you may just stick my nose into them or more exactly stick them into my eyes.
    Всё, что не делается, не всегда делается к лучшему
    Но так же не всегда всё, что не делается, не делается не к худшему. : D
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