Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful

Motif

Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Real and apparent values. · Choice between useful and ornamental. · view the constellation · filed as J245

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Filed under Choice between useful and ornamental.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Millstone preferred to jewels. Man shown jewels that cost much money; he replies that he has better stones (millstones) that earn that much King who experiences the cultural civilization of an empire in dream would rather be poor and primitive

Filed beside it

Fruitful tree chosen Useful wins contest over beautiful Usefulness better than speed Goodness preferred to beauty Strength preferred to cleverness Goodness preferred to wealth Practical knowledge more vital than theoretical Learned person worth two unlearned. Latter wastes time, former not

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