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Group No. 106
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Letter |
J. The wise and the foolish |
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Group No. |
J1000 – J1099 |
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Group name |
Other aspects of wisdom |
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Description |
J1021. The quarreling sons and the bundle of twigs. Peasant puts twigs together and cannot break them. Separately they are easily broken. His sons apply the lesson. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 861; Wienert FFC LVI 83 (ET 491), 111 (ST 228); Halm Aesop No. 103; Jacobs Aesop 217 No. 72. – Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda. |