Man compelled to live on peas takes comfort when he sees a man once rich eating the hulls

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Man compelled to live on peas takes comfort when he sees a man once rich eating the hulls.

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Consolation in misfortune. · Consolation by thought of others worse placed. · view the constellation · filed as J883.1

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Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Chauvin II 150 No. 10

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Filed under Poor man consoles self by thinking of misfortunes of rich.

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Man in cold consoles himself thinking of rich men in hell or prison

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