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Counsel: if you take it you will be sorry; if you don't you will also be sorry. This advice given hero by helpful horse.

The wise and the foolish. · Acquisition and possession of wisdom (knowledge). · Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge). · view the constellation · filed as J171.1

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  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 468f., 542.
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Filed under Proverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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