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Briefing
Use Pharaoh for 'where and what'.
Life can be a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. [With Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. [Rabbinic saying]

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, can be more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. [With Nathaniel P. Willis]


Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. [William Hazlitt]

A land of dreams possesses only the pigmentation of fact.

Valuable wisdom can be nearer when we stoop than when we soar. [Cf. William Wordsworth]

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   Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout:


Briefing: "Tought Enough"

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. [John Stuart Mill]

Briefing cat Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron von Münchhausen (1720-97) was a real person. A very humorous fiction character was added to his name afterwards.
      In contemplating good old fables, fairy tales, and even Munchausen stories, we may realise their "inner meanings" through "biting through" figurative mentions. It is fairly often like that.
      And when biting through a tough carrot, at least front teeth may be needed.

Very clever decisiveness with integrity can bring good fortune. The fancied hero "Baron Munchausen" fancied along such veins. What is more, a large number of his tall tales reflect European conditions a few centuries ago, their impact-rich savoury and unsavoury experiences and can even be considered a sort of offhand-looking records that link up to facts and facets of the Old World's history.

Baron Munchausen and others illustrate or give vent to some of these life-serving lessons:

  • Insecurity or maintaining the value of being carefully uncertain is hardly a black art.
  • Moderation in war might be called imbecile. [Cf. John A. Fisher]
  • To survive by "habitat" is tough enough.
  • Followers and leaders may be compared to children and parents. Not all are very bad. A cat should see that.
  • True interests consistently fulfil the lives involved.
  • One should refrain from inflicting loss of self-interests in lots of handy ones.
  • Life aims forwards, join what's favourable for life itself to benefit yourself.
  • Some have to walk consciously only part of the way toward their goals, and then leap in the dark to some success. Their chances of making headway may be correspondingly. [Cf. Henry David Thoreau]
  • One should avoid a popularity that has many snares and few real benefits. [Cf. William Penn]
Spring comes with flowers, winter with snow. Get idle concerns out of your body, then you experience your best season. If not, we are mistaken. [Cf. Wu-Men] [More]

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Frieze

Sage Words

Tut Devotion stands supreme, and it is the search for one's own true nature that is meant by devotion. - Adi Shankara, The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination, v. 31

When the supreme reality is not understood, the study of the scriptures is useless, and study of the scriptures is useless when the supreme reality has been understood. [Same place (Ibid), verse 59]

"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." [Richard Baxter (1615-91)]

When the newspapers have nothing else, young and happy ones are news and up to something - that's news. If they aren't up to something, that might be called news too. [With Kenneth Rexroth]
Thinking
"For urban humans, expert lions do the best they can do: They stay away after growing up, basically."


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