Old men preferred as councillors

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Old men preferred as councillors.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J151.2

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general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 538.

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Wisdom of hidden old man saves kingdom. In famine all old men are ordered killed. One man hides his father. When all goes wrong in the hands of the young rulers, the old man comes forth, performs assigned tasks, and aids with his wisdom Wisdom from god as old (one-eyed) man Wisdom from old man: always say, "if it pleases God."

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