Numskulls try to get pears from an oaktree. They accuse each other of eating all the pears

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Numskulls try to get pears from an oaktree. They accuse each other of eating all the pears.

The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd disregard of facts. · Absurd disregard of natural laws. · view the constellation · filed as J1944.1

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general Wesselski Bebel II 147 No. 149.

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Filed under Trying to get fruit from fruitless tree.

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