Enigmatic counsel: uproot old trees and plant new ones (dismiss old governors and appoint new)

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Enigmatic counsel: uproot old trees and plant new ones (dismiss old governors and appoint new).

Tests. · Tests of cleverness. · Riddles. · Enigmatic statements. · view the constellation · filed as H599.5

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Girl will not drink of water which had no father or mother (i.e., stagnant)Enigmatic statements of a sham mad man (Hamlet)Clever flatterer: Sir, you are a full moon, and my sovereign is a new moon (the full moon will decline, but the new moon has but started on its growth)Man asked to kill thousands, press hundreds beneath his arm, etc. (To shave his head, put some hairs under his arm, etc.)Give coals orange color, let glimmer of gold appear like expanse of heaven, prepare two heads of darkness. (Request for chickens for breakfast.)

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