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Motif

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

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

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Filed under Decisiveness of conduct.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Weather to please one only. Attempt to please everyone with weather unavailing. Weather given therefore without regard to men's desires 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
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