Many books do not make a scholar — Mythoi

Motif

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

Cited in the index

general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 608.

Within the index

Filed under Appearances deceive.

1 finer motif beneath it

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

Filed beside it

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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