Learning the virtue of patience from children. When their meals are stolen, they quietly search for them

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Learning the virtue of patience from children. When their meals are stolen, they quietly search for them.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Wisdom learned from children. · view the constellation · filed as J124

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