The constellation
U117 Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already
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● on the shelf
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Appearances deceive · U110 entry
filed beside
- Many books do not make a scholar · U111 entry
- Beard on she-goats do not make a male · U112 entry
- Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.) · U113 entry
- Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse · U114 entry
- The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence · U115 entry
- Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death · U116 entry
- Other ways in which appearances deceive · U119 entry