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Fool is told to get a pottle of brains. He tries to buy them. He finally learns that advice was to marry a clever girl.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J163.2.1

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  • EnglandBaughman.
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Filed under Man to bring wife a purseful of sense.

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