Sailor prays for gods to sink ship during storm, since gods never do what they are asked to do — Mythoi

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Sailor prays for gods to sink ship during storm, since gods never do what they are asked to do.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever verbal retorts (repartee). · Repartee – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as J1467.1

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Spanish Childers.

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Filed under Must drink from the common cup. A man always drinks out of his own cup. In storm at sea a sailor says, "Today we all drink out of the same cup (the sea).

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