Which is more important, learning or wit?

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Which is more important, learning or wit?

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate. · Nature of luck and fate – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as N141.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Luck or intelligence? Dispute as to which is the more powerful. Man with intelligence remains poor (is brought into court). Saved by mere luck.

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Which is more powerful, wealth or wisdom?Which is more beautiful, nymph of Luck or of Ill-Luck (Luck when coming, Ill-Luck when going)Weaver married by Wealth to a princess to show Wisdom that he is the more powerful

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