Age is relative. Young rival derides old one for his age. Oldster: "An ass of twenty is older than a man of seventy."

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Age is relative. Young rival derides old one for his age. Oldster: "An ass of twenty is older than a man of seventy."

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Rude retorts. · view the constellation · filed as J1352.2

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.

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The burden of two asses. A king and his son hunting on a hot day put their fur coats on the fool's back. King: "You have an ass's load on you." Fool: "Rather the burdens of two asses."

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