Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed

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Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Present values chosen. · The present preferred to the past. · view the constellation · filed as J311.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Wienert FFC LVI 70 (ET 340), 144 (ST 496)
general Halm Aesop No. 60.

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Filed under Heed not the past.

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Do not ask: "Why were the former days better than the present ones?"

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