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Rh  But even as he spoke, his wife laughed outright, since she knew the full measure of his capacity, and she said: "Very fine, indeed. There is plenty more where that came from. O king of birds,

How can you fail to appreciate your own strength and weakness? There is a saying:

And there is sound sense in this:

"How was that?" asked Sprawl. And Constance told the story of

 

In a certain lake lived a turtle named Shell-Neck. He had as friends two ganders whose names were Slim and Grim. Now in the vicissitudes of time there came 