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The Commoners and the Disciple

THE COMMONERS waged war with the fattened managers, and called on some suspicious-looking disciples to help them. They answered,
      "We and our great dynasty would willingly have helped you, if we had not known who you were, and who you were fighting against."
  • Also count the cost before you commit yourselves.

Do Not Refrain from Anything Young that Should be Good for You

ANECDOTE AT THE AGE of ninety-one, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) resigned from the Supreme Court and spent the next summer at his country house. Old friends from Boston came to see him, bringing their grandchildren. Holmes greatly enjoyed their company. Sitting on the porch with Betsy Warder, aged sixteen, and discussing life with her, he said,
      "I will not refrain from talking about anything because you are too young, if you will not because I am too old."
  • Do not refrain from red roses either.

The Donkey and the Wolf out of His Waters

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What you sloven-long for seldom occurs anyway. Do not need big guys to lead you into that.
A DONKEY feeding in a certain field of life, saw a wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame. The wolf coming up, asked why he was lame. The donkey replied that passing through a bad experience, a sharp thorn, as he preferred to call it.
      He sharply insisted the wolf pull it out, lest when he took care of him, it should injure all involved. The wolf agreed and lifted up the foot of the donkey, and was giving his whole mind to finding the tricky thorn when the donkey with his heels kicked his teeth into his mouth and galloped away in unruly manner. The wolf, greatly offended to say the least, still sobbed admiringly,
      "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?"
  • Jesus calls false Christs and false teachers wolves. Seeing is believing. - British proverb.

Live Fast and the Snake

Living Fast bordered much on philanthropy, saying that of all humans he was the most tender in his regard for a clerical man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A snake who heard these words said with a smile to Living Fast,
      "Oh that you would eat the dead and not the living."
  • Here the clergyman halfway is associated with being dead. In the ashrams of life the monk and world-renouncer is almost dead too - it is the stage before it.

The Archbishop and a Little Wolf

AN ARCHBISHOP once found a wolf cub and brought it up, and after a while taught it to like lambs from neighbouring flocks. The growing wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the archbishop,
      "Since you have taught me to like taking the lambs of others, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you risk losing some of your own flock."
  • He that will steal an ounce, will steal a pound. [American proverb]

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