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Dog driven out of dining room claims to be drunk. Says that he has drunk so much that he does not know how he got out of the house.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Consolation in misfortune. · Consolation by pretending that one does not want the thing he cannot have. · view the constellation · filed as J874

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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  • general Wienert FFC LVI 68 (ET 322), 125 (ST 338)
  • general Halm Aesop No. 62.
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Filed under Consolation by pretending that one does not want the thing he cannot have.

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The fox and the sour grapes. Pretends that the grapes he cannot reach are sourFox in swollen river claims to be swimming to distant townWarrior having lost a city claims that he did not wish to sell it for a higher priceHeadless king and tailless tiger, each afraid of other, agree to be friendsScorned suitor consoles himself by realization that a wife who did not love him would be constant source of trouble
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