Many books do not make a scholar

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Many books do not make a scholar.

The nature of life. · The nature of life – miscellaneous motifs. · Appearances deceive. · view the constellation · filed as U111

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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.

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 608.

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Many books do not make a scholar: youth tricks mother by carrying many books

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Beard on she-goats do not make a male Big voice: little creature. (Frogs, crickets.)Mountain in labor brings forth a mouse The skeleton in the closet. An apparently happy man lets another see the actual misery of his existence Hypocrite is acclaimed as saint after his death Man rejects bride because she seems immature. Her father reassures him that she has had several children already Other ways in which appearances deceive

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