Unsuccessful fishermen console themselves that their earlier high hopes balance up their disappointment

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Unsuccessful fishermen console themselves that their earlier high hopes balance up their disappointment.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Consolation in misfortune. · Consolation by a trifle. · view the constellation · filed as J866.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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general Wienert FFC LVI 66 (ET 300), 133 (ST 324)
general Halm Aesop No. 23.

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Filed under Consolation by thinking of the past.

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