Slight inconvenience in weather, large gain

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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.

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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

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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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