Squirrel tries to dip out lake with his tail: difficulty of reforming the world

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Squirrel tries to dip out lake with his tail: difficulty of reforming the world.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Wisdom (knowledge) acquired from animals. · view the constellation · filed as J133.5

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Animal gives wise example to man.

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