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Slight inconvenience in weather, large gain.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Gains and losses. · Choices: small inconvenience, large gain. · view the constellation · filed as J355

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Filed under Choices: small inconvenience, large gain.

1 finer motif beneath it
The widow's meal. King upbraids wind for blowing away a poor widow's last cup of meal. Finds that the wind has saved a ship full of people by that very act. The king is humbled
Filed beside it
Bodily member(s) sacrificed to save life. (Cf. J341.) Inconvenience disregarded when booty is in sight Less inconvenience in fighting though tired than in losing all for a little rest Priest sells his donkey because worry for its safety distracts him from prayer Small inconvenience, large gain – miscellaneous

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