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Motif

Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Other aspects of wisdom. · Decisiveness of conduct. · view the constellation · filed as J1041.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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  • general Type 1830
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 218 No. 51
  • general Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 495), 121 (ST 304)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 166.
Within the index

Filed under Impossibility of pleasing everyone. One must act therefore without awaiting everyone's approval.

Filed beside it
Miller, his son, and the ass: trying to please everyone. Miller blamed when he follows his son on foot; when he takes the son's place on the ass; when he takes the son behind him; and when he puts the son in front of him
Carried in tale types

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