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Trained deer drinks wine till he breaks his leg but thereafter abstains. Thus teaches lesson to master.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals. · view the constellation · filed as J133.3

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  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 240.
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One wild goat steps over another. They thus pass each other uninjured on a cliff. This shows advantage of peaceablenessAss refuses to drink after it has had enough. Thus teaches lesson to masterWoman will not follow donkey on safe path: attacked by robbersSquirrel tries to dip out lake with his tail: difficulty of reforming the worldBig fish eat little: robber will plunder weak neighbors

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